Season 4, Episode 6: Surviving Climate Anxiety Book Preview with Thomas Doherty
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Season 4, Episode 6: Surviving Climate Anxiety Book Preview with Thomas Doherty
Thomas and Panu discussed Thomas’ upcoming book Surviving Climate Anxiety: A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving – a comprehensive resource for the general public that includes practical examples and stories drawn from people Thomas has worked with. Thomas shared insights about the book’s five part structure, which is designed to move readers from basic skills for coping with eco and climate stress, through developing environmental identity, healing from eco-anxiety and despair, finding happiness and flourishing using the arts and spirituality, and taking action on environmental problems. Panu reflected on the importance of addressing the dark and light aspects of climate feelings and having a survivor mission. Surviving Climate Anxiety will be published in 2025 by Little Brown Spark.
Links
Thomas video Recentering and the "Upside Down Pyramid" (on stress reduction and personal sustainability)
Thomas Doherty 2024 Awakening to Eco-Therapy: Practical Tools to Help Clients Unearth Hope in a Global Crisis Psychotherapy Networker (See special issue on The Emotional Fallout of Our Climate Crisis, requires a free account).
Doherty, Artman, Homan, Keluskar & White (2024). Environmental identity-based therapies for climate distress: applying cognitive behavioural approaches (a new research paper that integrates environmental identity development and common psychotherapies like ACT and DBT)
Ellen Barry (2022) Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room. New York Times profile of Thomas’ work with clients
Anne-Marie Hoeve (2024) How to care about the climate and thrive: Advice from an eco psychologist. Imagine 5. Interview
Lawrence Rubin (2023). Thomas Doherty on Ecopsychology and the Ethical Imperative of Ecotherapy. Psychotherapy.net Interview
