Therapy, Psychotherapy, Counselling

Therapy


Type of Method

• Psychology - Psychotherapy - Counseling

Suitable for

• Self-Guided
• Parent / teacher / child care provider
• One to one, personal

 

‘Therapy’ is a broad church with many academic and practical variations, and for this reason, any single definition will be inadequate. This is  therefore, only a general overview, allowing guides who identify themselves as Therapists, Psychotherapists, or Counsellors to describe their respective practices in greater detail on their personal profiles. They will be able to include their academic background, world-view, practice framework and approach to Climate Psychology and Deep Adaptation. 

Standard Therapy

Therapy, also called Psychotherapy or Counselling, is the process of meeting with a therapist who is trained in aspects of psychology in order to resolve problematic behaviours, beliefs, feelings, relationship issues, and/or somatic responses (sensations in the body). There are many schools and variations. Standard Therapy offers individuals psychological insight, in order to become better adjusted in themselves and in the World.

Standard Therapy assumes that ‘The World’ is more or less stable, rational and eternal, and that many forms of anxiety, negative emotions and limiting behaviours are internally generated by events from the past, may be mal-adaptive in the present, and can be managed, healed or overcome.

Deep Adaptation starts with the insight that the World and/or the Biosphere are in collapse. A small but growing number of Therapists are adapting and extending their practice to integrate the insights of collapse awareness and/or Climate Psychology. From this perspective, the World is irrational, and anxiety and existential discomfort may be entirely rational responses to real threats, and not necessarily something to be solved or overcome. This perspective challenges some of the basic assumptions of standard therapeutic practice.

By helping to value, explore and manage grief, anxiety and cognitive dissonance, they may become positive springboards for necessary action and transformation. Climate Psychology seeks to offer depth and psychological insight to the climate change and adaptation movements. This may help to frame, and in some cases overcome, the endemic inertia and resistance to facing and acting upon the acute human and global predicaments.

You can find out much more about these perspectives via The Climate Psychology Alliance website

If you are a Counsellor or Therapist listed as Deep Adaptation guide and would like to comment or add to this method description please contact methodmanager@daguidance.info


Guides using this Method

Neela Paulussen

Bodyoriented (psycho)therapist

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Oscar Espejo

Psychologist - Climate Crisis related Wellbeing and Guidance

I’m a psychologist graduated from the ‘Universitat de València’ (UV, Spain) since 2017, currently st …

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Sarah Hamilton

Psychotherapist and Counsellor

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Courtney Noster

Inner Nature Discovery Guide, Therapist, Ecohealer, Shaman

I offer coaching, trauma therapy (EMDR), ecotherapy, and shamanic arts healing.

Clare Gibbons

Assistant Psychologist. Trainee Psychotherapist

I offer 1-1 and small group therapeutic work which is both attachment and trauma-informed and existe …

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Pascale Aline

Counseling Therapist (registered) and Coach

I help with solastalgia and making sense of the environmental and societal destruction we’re seeing …

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Megan Smith-Sallans

Psychotherapist

I am a licensed psychotherapist and have been in practice since 2003. I have a certification in ecot …

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Aimee Maxwell

Psychologist

I offer support to Australians experiencing difficulties. I’m a registered psychologist who understa …

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Leon Berg

Council Trainer

Leon Berg is a founding member of the Ojai Foundation (www.ojaifoundation.org), an educational sanct …

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Norbert Prinz

Gestalttherapeut (DVG), Supervisor (DVG)

Ich beschäftige mich intensiv mit der Möglichkeit eines sozial-ökologischen Kollaps und den psycholo …

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Nick Laurence

Coach / Mental Health Support worker

In my work with individuals and groups I use a mindfulness-based wisdom development pedagogy, which …

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Jenny Rose Smith

Deep Listener; Hakomi therapist in training. Trauma sensitive meditation instructor.

As I have become older I have increasingly known that slowing down, simplifying and working more wit …

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Jarrah Schmah

Psychotherapist

Hello dear hearts, I’m offering online psychotherapy sessions in Somatic Experiencing and just being …

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Eveline Tijs

Coach - Psychotherapist - Facilitator

Hi, my name is Eveline. I am a 36 year old Belgian and moved to Hastings, East Sussex in 2019 to liv …

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Dr. Christine Gibson

Systems Healer, Family Physician, Trauma and Resilience Specialist

A primary care practitioner, systems entrepreneur, and trauma specialist, I am especially able to gu …

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Maria Bliklen

Coach, facilitator and psychological counselor

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Naresh Giangrande

For example Coach, Therapist, Healer ...

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