Allies & Friends
We are far from alone in putting concerns and the mental health impacts of climate change at the forefront of our work.
Below is a list of researchers, scholars, advocates, and organizations whom we admire and partner with whenever possible.
Climate Psychiatry Alliance
Climate instability is one of the most urgent public health threats of the 21st century. The CPA creates and promotes resources to educate the public and other mental health professionals about the mental health impacts of climate change and advocates as a group to mitigate these effects.
CPA resources are targeted to patients, families, professionals, and other climate allies. From toolkits on 'How to Protect Against Extreme Heat' to the Climate Aware Therapist directory, the CPA has resources to support individual and community mental health in the face of climate disruption.
If you’re teaching a course, researching a talk, or looking for peer-discussion resources, the psychiatrists of Climate Psychiatry Alliance have curated a list of essential studies on climate psychology to support you.
CIIS Climate Psychology Certificate Program
The Climate Psychology Certificate provides psychological training and skills for therapists, healers, and allied professionals to address the growing mental health impacts of the climate emergency. Utilizing an integrative and robust framework that includes multiple behavioral science approaches and philosophies. A perspective into the broken systemic legacies from which painful eco-emotional conditions arise, climate psychology is adaptable to various therapeutic orientations.
The primary focus of the Climate Psychology Certificate is to provide training that can be incorporated into clinical practice for working therapeutically with the lived experiences of eco-anxiety, eco-grief, and many expressions of climate-invoked dread. Participants learn about:
- Immediate mental health impacts of climate related disasters
- Long term stress of living with the reality of climate change over time
- Trauma-informed therapeutic and emotional resiliency skills with ways of motivating effective action
- Existential dilemmas that come into the therapy room, such as whether to have a family, move out of a geographical area to avoid climate related disasters, kinship breakdown, and more generally, how to navigate the future with escalating threa
Climate Mental Health Network
Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked. To heal the planet, we have to collectively heal ourselves.
Climate change has created a global mental health crisis. Due to both direct (e.g. extreme heat, hurricanes, desertification, displacement) and indirect (knowledge and awareness of the crisis) impacts of the climate crisis, people are experiencing climate emotions and mental health issues.
Climate Psychology Alliance North America (CPA-NA)
Addresses the urgent psychological dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis and promotes cultural shifts toward human resilience, regeneration, and equity.
Climate Cares: Imperial College London
We enable people, communities and systems to have both the emotional resilience and transformative potential to cope with the climate emergency and take meaningful climate action. We work collectively for a better climate future that benefits mental health and wellbeing.
Our mission is to equip individuals, communities and systems with the knowledge and resources to protect mental health from climate impacts, while enabling climate action that strengthens the conditions for good mental health and wellbeing.
COP2
COP² is a global network of 450+ organisations working to strengthen our collective ability to endure and adapt to the climate crisis by embedding psychological resilience within climate resilience.
We work in collaboration with campaign partners of the Race to Resilience and other global initiatives to accelerate climate resilience and adaptation.
Human and Planetary Health Initiative at Stanford
Stanford's Human and Planetary Health initiative builds on a vibrant community of engaged faculty, staff, and students. Bringing together perspectives from environmental sciences, public health, systems thinking, policy, law, and other disciplines to achieve breakthroughs and find solutions, more than 130 faculty and Stanford leaders across campus are active in human and planetary health, and student engagement is high in all our work.
Programs and resources include: