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Therapist Launches Website About Climate-Related Anxiety and Trauma [yaleclimateconnections.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 2/8/208:38 PM

By Sarah Kennedy, Yale Climate Connections, February 6, 2020

Andrew Bryant is a clinical social worker in Seattle. He says recently, global warming has started coming up more and more in his therapy sessions with clients.

So to connect people to helpful resources, he started a website called “Climate and Mind.” Since then, more people have started reaching out to him.

“People have been contacting me from Seattle and also from different parts of the world looking for help or resources because they’re struggling with specifically climate anxiety and depression and trauma,” he says.

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Joe NeigelMember

I'm concerned about overusing or misusing the word "trauma" in this context, as it has specific meaning with regard to how we talk about Adverse Childhood Experiences. Just saying.

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