CPA-NA Canadian Members in the Media

For media inquiries or to add content for this page, please contact Natalie Thomas at: nataliethomas@climatepsychology.ca

We recognize that for thousands of years these territories within what is now called Canada have been home and sacred gathering places for many peoples of Turtle Island. We respectfully acknowledge that we are on the traditional territories of many Indigenous Nations. The original nations continue to cry out for justice. As treaty people we commit to listen, learn, and work to right the wrongs of the past and present.

If you’re looking for resources on climate crisis, mental health, and intersectional environmentalism that specifically relate to Canada, here is our growing list of essentials.

On Canadian Climate Justice and Relation to Nature

A Good War: Mobilizing Canada For The Climate Emergency - Seth Klein

Getting To Zero: Canada Confronts Global Warming - Tony Clarke

Principles Of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach To Global Crisis - Umeek (E. Richard Atleo)

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, And Canada's Water Crisis - Maude Barlow

The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place In Nature - David Suzuki, with Amanda McConnell and Adrienne Mason

Canadian Climate Anxiety

As We Battle the Ongoing Climate Crisis, We Must Address the Mental Health Crisis It’s Causing Too - David Suzuki on CommonDreams.com, March 27, 2022

The 2021 Western North American heat dome increased climate change anxiety among British Columbians: Results from a natural experiment - Bratu, A. et.al., in The Journal of Climate Change and Heath, May 2022

Eco-anxiety: Young Canadians report climate change impact on their mental health- Jeremiah Rodriquez on CTV News, October 7, 2021  

Hopeless or hopeful? How eco-anxiety affects kids and youth - Jonathan Forani on CTV News, September 24, 2019.

What’s the best way to deal with eco-anxiety? - Dr. Brian Goldman interviews Canadian clinician Nancy Blair on The Dose

Thank you to CPA-NA Steering Committee member Anthony Wilson, RSW, and CPA-Member Nancy Blair, MEd (Counselling), CCC, RCT, for contributing to this page.

Canadian Eco-Psychology Interviews: Reflections on the human/nature relationship

Ecotherapy and Social Justice, - Phoenix Smith (US) May, 2021

Nature-based Therapeutic Techniques for Children, Cheryl Fisher (US) - Oct. 2020

Taking Heart in Turbulent Times, Joanna Macy (US) - Sept. 2020

Towards an Ecopsychotherapy, Mary-Jayne Rust (UK) - June 2020

Terrapsychological Inquiry, Craig Chalquist (US) - Feb. 2020

Nature-based Therapy with Children & Families, Nevin Harper (Canada)- Jan. 2020

Wild Therapy: Undomesticating Inner & Outer Worlds, Nick Totten (UK) - Nov. 2019

Earth Emotions, Glenn Albrecht (AUST) - Aug. 2019

Ecopsychology as Decolonial Praxis, Andy Fisher (Canada) - Aug. 2019

Prescribing Nature into a Clinical Practice, Patricia Hasbach (US) - Feb. 2019

Democratic Collapse, Misogyny and the Destruction of Nature, Susan Griffin (US) - Jan. 2019