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.

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Mist rising over a dense pine forest
Storm clouds gathering over a dry, open plain
Dark storm clouds lit orange by the setting sun
Mist rising over a dense pine forest
Storm clouds gathering over a dry, open plain

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.

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Facing the climate crisis with support, insight and community

Meet some of the people who make up the Climate Psychology Alliance, and hear what brought them 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

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“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

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“I think that in getting lost, in slowing down, the whole glimpses itself. Touches itself.“

Bayo Akomolafe

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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?

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.

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October 2, 2026
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Call for Submissions: Explorations in Climate Psychology, Issue 9

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AI, limbic resonance and the evolution of places of care (Climate Crisis Digest Sep 2026)

October 1, 2026
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AI, limbic resonance and the evolution of places of care (Climate Crisis Digest Sep 2026)

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The Law of Unintended Consequences: What the Palestine Action proscription means for therapists (Climate Crisis Digest Oct 2026)

October 1, 2026
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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.

Logos of the ICRA partners: CPA, The Mindfulness Initiative, Climate Majority Project and The National Lottery

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

Explorations makes space for essays, interviews, testimonies, poetry and art alongside peer-reviewed research — different ways of expressing and engaging with the climate and ecological crisis, gathered from contributors across the UK and beyond.

Latest issue: Heavy weather: Exploring reactionary states of mind

Issue 8, Heavy Weather, is out now. Inside: explorations of the post-truth world, group narcissism, the unconscious, AI and power, and how each feeds the reactionary state of mind.

A journal of climate psychology

A biannual publication from CPA's editorial working group, tracking the pace, rhythms and voices of climate psychology as the field emerges. Contributions are welcome from practitioners, researchers, artists and activists alike.

Testimonials

Voices from the community

"Being part of the young members group changed how I see my place in the climate movement. I'm not alone anymore."

Student member

"As a therapist, CPA has been the professional home I didn't realise I needed. It's where I do my deepest thinking."

Climate cafe participant

"I came looking for support and found a community. CPA gave me language for feelings I didn't know how to name."

Climate cafe participant

How are you holding the weight of it all?

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