Facing the climate crisis with support, insight and community
We are the Climate Psychology Alliance.
How are you holding the weight of it all?
Climate Psychology Alliance is a UK community exploring the emotional, relational, and psychological dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis. Whether you're looking for support, connection, or a place to think honestly about what's happening, you're welcome here.
Climate Psychology Alliance is a UK community exploring the emotional, relational, and psychological dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis. Whether you're looking for support, connection, or a place to think honestly about what's happening, you're welcome here.
“Climate psychology indicates a new way of imagining our internal worlds in all our connectedness and interdependence with the vital forces, the animate objects, the creatures with whom we share habitats.”
Hoggett et al, 2022
“Climate psychology explores current existential anxiety and its associated defences, the ways old beliefs can be relinquished, and the ways we can open up to new ones.”
Hoggett et al, 2022
“I think that in getting lost, in slowing down, the whole glimpses itself. Touches itself.“
Bayo Akomolafe
The crisis isn't only out there
It's in the grief, anxiety, anger, and love we feel as the world changes around us. Climate psychology takes those feelings seriously. Drawing on psychotherapeutic practice, research, and creative work, we ask: how do we face difficult truths together, and how do we live, relate, and build resilience as we adapt to an uncertain future?
What are you looking for?
Wherever you're starting from, there's a way in.
Find support
Climate cafés, therapeutic support, parent circles, group sessions, and more. Wherever you are with it, you are warmly welcome.
Support for young people
Workshops, peer spaces, and community for young people living in a time of climate and ecological crisis.
Find out about membership
A home for therapeutic and creative practitioners, researchers, students, activists, and anyone drawn to this work.
Delve into our research and resources
Explore the ideas, research, and thinking at the heart of what we do.
Bring climate psychology to your organisation
Talks, training, and consultancy for teams, institutions, and grassroots groups.
Support our work
There are many ways to help. Donate, volunteer, or partner with us to support more people navigating the climate and ecological crisis.
The climate crisis is not a standalone event
It's inseparable from the histories of racism, colonialism, and extraction that shape the world we live in. Facing that honestly is part of the work. At CPA, justice isn't a separate pillar or a line in a values statement. It's woven through everything we do, from the spaces we offer to the conversations we have with each other.
We believe climate psychology has to reckon with who has been harmed, who has been heard, and whose futures are being protected. That means showing up for intergenerational justice, centring voices too often excluded, and doing the slow, uncomfortable but essential work of unlearning together.
News
News from our community
Reflections, announcements, and voices from across CPA.
Date
October 2, 2026
Call for Submissions: Explorations in Climate Psychology, Issue 9
Author:
Explorations Editorial Group
Digest
AI, limbic resonance and the evolution of places of care (Climate Crisis Digest Sep 2026)
October 1, 2026
AI, limbic resonance and the evolution of places of care (Climate Crisis Digest Sep 2026)
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Digest
The Law of Unintended Consequences: What the Palestine Action proscription means for therapists (Climate Crisis Digest Oct 2026)
October 1, 2026
The Law of Unintended Consequences: What the Palestine Action proscription means for therapists (Climate Crisis Digest Oct 2026)
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A community, not a service
CPA isn't a service you subscribe to. It's a community you shape. Our members, from seasoned practitioners to students just finding their footing, facilitate the conversations, run the groups, write the research, and care for one another through it all.
It's intergenerational. And it's grounded in a culture of care, where showing up looks different for everyone and contribution matters more than credentials.
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Building the UK's first community of practice for inner climate work
The Inner Climate Response Alliance (ICRA) is a National Lottery-funded partnership between the Climate Psychology Alliance, the Mindfulness Initiative, and the Climate Majority Project. Together, we're creating a UK-wide network for anyone exploring the inner dimensions of the climate crisis, bringing together emotional resilience and contemplative practices, climate action and community cohesion.
Our journal
Explorations in Climate Psychology.
A leading international journal bringing together essays, research and creative work from thinkers, practitioners and writers engaging with the climate and ecological crisis.
Explorations: A journal of Climate Psychology
What's in the journal
Latest issue: Heavy weather: Exploring reactionary states of mind
Testimonials
Voices from the community
"I really enjoy the creativity of CPA's structures and relationships - it gives me a little leap of joy is when something is done differently. I really like these alternative approaches, sociocracies, working with the notion of circles rather than hierarchies. That really excites me. Whenever you come into a CPA space, something slightly different will happen which is just energising”
Gillian Broad, CPA co-chair
“I am learning to live with a new sense of vulnerability without answers.”
Through the Door participant
“There was always a warm welcome in each session. I enjoyed the openness to explore real challenges and the shared experience of the leaders, who lead from a space of caring within the guiding principles. Time was managed effectively with space to reflect and consider diverse use of language and perspective.”
CCLC training participant
"I feel that I have connected to deeply held emotions and whilst that makes me feel vulnerable, I also feel more authentic. ."
Climate Café Listening Circle participant
"I found it comforting to hear from others, to find that other people have similar thoughts, feelings and struggles. It made me feel connected and less alone in it all."
Climate Café Listening Circle participant
"Listening and feeling heard helped me to connect much more deeply to my own emotions than I had expected."
Climate Café Listening Circle participant
"I loved the gentleness and the care"
Climate Café Listening Circle participant
"I learned that through constellating in groups we see a bigger story of what is within and between us"
Through the Door participant
"This work is profound and useful. The facilitated structure of two rounds is an unfolding and builds connection gradually. "Silence is a welcome guest" as I learned through exploration. "
Climate Café Listening Circle participant
"As a coach working within communities where the impact of climate change are being directly experienced; there is a need for a safe space to share the challenging emotions that are felt. This training enabled me to facilitate a safe container for group participants to share because they care. In sharing Climate related emotions, there is a space created, a stuck-ness that begins to move and a sense of shared experience and even renewed hope. "
CCLC training participant
