Find a Climate-Aware Care Professionals in Canada
This directory aims to connect individuals across Canada with mental health professionals who understand the emotional and psychological impacts of climate change. Care professionals listed here are trained to compassionately address climate anxiety, grief, and distress, while supporting resilience, empowerment, and action. Our goal is to provide a trusted resource for Canadians seeking therapeutic support from professionals who recognize the profound connections between climate change, mental health, and community wellbeing.*
For a directory of climate-aware therapists outside Canada, please visit The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America.
What is a Climate-Aware Care Professional?
A climate-aware care professionals are individuals who recognize and thoughtfully address the emotional and psychological impacts of climate change in the therapeutic care they provide. These individuals understand the complexities of climate anxiety, ecological grief, eco-distress, and related feelings of uncertainty or helplessness. Through their training and practice, climate-aware care professionals offer informed, compassionate support that empowers individuals and communities to navigate climate-related emotions, build resilience, and foster meaningful action.
Climate-aware care professionals:
Understand the interconnectedness between climate change, mental health, and social wellbeing.
Validate the legitimacy and depth of climate-related emotional experiences, such as anxiety, grief, anger, and despair.
Facilitate resilience-building strategies to help individuals cope effectively with climate distress.
Support meaningful engagement and empowered action that aligns with personal values and capacities.
Encourage community connection and collective efforts to promote psychological and environmental resilience.
Working with a climate-aware care professional ensures you receive care that is sensitive to the unique emotional challenges posed by our changing environment, while empowering you to navigate the future with clarity, compassion, and strength.
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* Individuals listed in the Climate-Aware Care Professionals Directory above have self-identified as climate-aware professionals. Inclusion in this directory does not imply endorsement or verification of professional qualifications by the MHCCA. Clients and patients are encouraged to independently verify credentials, registration status, and good standing by contacting relevant regulatory bodies in Canada, such as provincial Colleges of Psychologists, Nurses, Nurse Practiontioners, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, or Counsellors, prior to engaging professional services.