Climate-Aware Therapy Community of Practice (CoP)
PSC Climate Aware Community of Practice 2026
A professional space to reflect, integrate and grow your climate-aware practice.
The PSC Climate-Aware Therapy Community of Practice (CoP) is a facilitated peer learning space for mental health practitioners working in therapeutic roles at the intersection of climate change and mental health.
Designed as a structured and supportive environment, the CoP enables you to translate knowledge into practice, strengthen your clinical confidence and engage in meaningful professional dialogue with peers navigating similar terrain.
Value
Book session-by-session to come along as often you can, or register before 27 May to join us at a discounted rate for all 6 sessions.
Get connected in a professionally facilitated space to embed learning, refine practice and stay resourced in complex and evolving work.
A rare opportunity to be supported, challenged and open connections in a growing field of climate-aware mental health practitioners.
Registration cost
PSC CAP Members: can join any or all CoP sessions for FREE while places are available. (Registration is required). For help with how to register for free, see FAQs below.
Single sessions: $50 (+ GST & booking fees)
Early bird package (no longer available) for other PSC members or non-members - register before the first session (on May 27) to attend all 6 sessions, for the cost of 5 sessions: $250 (+ GST & booking fees)
If you are not a PSC CAP Member - read about the benefits here, or apply to become a member.
If you are already a PSC Member & would like to upgrade to join the CAP Network, email us to find out how to apply.
Session Dates and Times
All sessions are Wednesdays, 1pm - 2pm (ADST/AEST - Melbourne/Sydney timezone)
• Wednesday May 27th
• Wednesday June 24th
• Wednesday August 26th
• Wednesday September 23rd
• Wednesday October 21st
• Wednesday November 25th
Session Content
Session 1 : Entering Climate-Aware Practice
This opening session introduces the Community of Practice (CoP) model and explores the emerging field of climate psychology. Participants reflect on how climate and ecological disruption are appearing in therapeutic settings and begin sharing experiences from their own practice. The session establishes the reflective learning structure of the CoP group and builds a supportive professional container for the series. Focus: Understanding how climate disruption is appearing in mental health practice.
Session 2: Recognising Climate Emotions
Climate-related emotions are increasingly appearing in therapeutic work. This session explores the psychological responses associated with ecological disruption, including eco-anxiety, ecological grief, solastalgia, and moral distress. Practitioners reflect on how these emotions appear in clinical practice and consider how they may also arise in their own experience. Focus: Recognising climate emotions in clients and practitioners.
Session 3: Working with Climate Distress
Climate-aware practice is fundamentally relational. This session explores how practitioners can support clients experiencing climate distress through therapeutic presence, witnessing, and compassionate dialogue. Participants reflect on how relational practice supports clients to process difficult climate emotions while maintaining connection, meaning, and agency. Focus: Strengthening relational approaches to climate-aware therapy.
Session 4: Meaning in a Climate-Changed World
The climate and nature crisis raises complex ethical and existential questions for both practitioners and clients. This session explores themes such as moral distress, responsibility, agency, and meaning-making. Practitioners reflect on how these questions appear in therapeutic conversations and how to hold them with compassion, care and climate-awareness. Focus: Navigating ethical tensions in climate-aware practice.
Session 5: Practitioner Resilience and Regenerative Resourcing
Working with climate emotions can be meaningful but also emotionally demanding. This session focuses on practitioner wellbeing and the importance of inner work, peer support, and community care. Participants explore ways to remain grounded, sustain motivation, and prevent secondary climate stress. Focus: Supporting practitioner resilience and long-term engagement.
Session 6: Integration and Future Practice
The final session focuses on integrating climate-awareness into clinical practice. Participants reflect on insights gained during the CoP series and consider how climate-aware practice may continue to develop within their professional pathways. The session also highlights opportunities for continued engagement with PSC and the wider community of climate-aware practitioners. Focus: Strengthening practitioner identity and future pathways in climate-aware practice.
FAQs
- Why Join?
Working with climate-related experiences brings complexity- clinically, ethically and personally.Our CoP supports you to:
Navigate climate distress, grief, eco-anxiety and moral distress with peers
Engage with the uncertainty and existential dimensions of climate change
Reflect on your own responses as a practitioner in this work
Build clarity and confidence in professional contexts
- What will I gain?
A structured reflective practice model to support ongoing professional development
Deeper integration of climate-aware capabilities into your clinical work
Insight through shared learning and peer exchange
Strengthened relational and reflective practice skills
A sense of connection within a community of practitioners doing this work
- How It Works
Facilitated, small-group sessions in a confidential and professionally held space
Grounded in the PSC Climate-Aware Practice Capability Framework
Focused on real practice challenges, case reflections and shared inquiry
Designed to support application, not just theory
- Who is this for?
Psychologists, therapists, counsellors, social workers and mental health practitioners
Those already engaging with, or seeking to deepen climate-aware therapeutic practice
Practitioners interested in our professional development course, Climate-Aware Mental Health: Foundations for Practice
- I'm a CAP Member, how do I register for free?
If you are a PSC CAP Member - access your link to register for free here. (Your PSC Member login will be required to access the code.)
Helpful Tools
Check out these amazing new PSC resources developed to assist your professional development journey. Click the links below to access and learn more.
PSC Free Download: Capability Framework for Climate Aware-Practice
PSC Free Webinar: Introducing the Climate-Aware Capability Framework for Mental Health Practice
PSC Online Professional Development Course: Climate-Aware Mental Health: Foundations for Practice
PSC Online Professional Development workshop: Climate Emotions in Practice
Facilitators
Christie Wilson, MA
Christie Wilson is a clinical psychotherapist, regenerative health practitioner, facilitator, and mentor with over 25 years’ experience across mental health, natural health, and organisational settings. She specialises in group-based psychosocial interventions and works at the intersection of climate psychology, regenerative health, and systems practice. She is the Climate and Mental Health Manager at Psychology for a Safe Climate, where she leads Professional Development in Climate-aware Practice and the Climate Café program. She is co-author of the Climate-Aware Practice Capability Framework and supports practitioners, facilitators, leaders, and communities to integrate climate-awareness, build emotional resilience, and develop regenerative capacities in response to the climate and nature crisis. Mentoring and Consultation Email: outreach@psychologyforasafeclimate.org
Dr Bronwyn Gresham
Bronwyn is a clinical psychologist and skilled facilitator who brings engaging, empathic leadership with credibility, warmth and humour to her work. Known for her ability to think on her feet and adapt to group needs, she creates safe, collaborative spaces where people can explore complex emotions and build resilience together. She is a certified facilitator with Wayapa, Mindful Self-Compassion and Good Grief Networks 10 Steps. With experience across climate and community health, private practice and university sectors, Bronwyn has worked in clinical services, advisory roles, leadership, strategic planning, risk management, and mental health promotion and prevention. She joined Psychology for a Safe Climate as CEO in 2023, having been a dedicated member for 11 years ,co-designing and facilitating workshops around climate grief, burnout and compassion. Email: ceo@psychologyforasafeclimate.org
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