Relationships are dynamic and intricate. They include our immediate relationship with ourselves, our relationships with family and friends, as well as our kinship with Earth and the natural world.
Deepening our relationship with the natural world nourishes our wellbeing and sense of connection and helps us have affection and love for this precious planet and the more-than-human world.
I value and support the innate reciprocity in human-natural world relationships. My counselling practice is informed by up-to-date climate science and an acceptance and appreciation of the emotional impact that climate change, disasters and environmental destruction can have on an individual, and the collective.
Recent publications:
Psychology for a Safe Climate newsletter: The Dance of Learning and Unlearning and Climate Psychology Alliance journal: The River Wants to Move.
I am a climate-aware practitioner with Psychology for a Safe Climate and I have trained in expressive therapies and use modalities such as drawing, writing and movement when working with climate emotions. Climate-aware therapists view eco-distress, eco-anxiety and ecological grief as appropriate responses to climate change, and consider these emotions as a sign of connection and care for our world.
What counts is what we are, and the way we deepen our relationship with the world and with others, a relationship that can be of both love for all that exists and of desire for its transformation.
— Italo Calvino