Ecopsychology.
Have you ever felt the weight of our current global climate crisis? Ecopsychology works with people in navigating the often overwhelming impact of their role and responsibility in this.
In traditional psychology, the ‘psyche’ is often considered in isolation from it's natural environment. This split between mind and nature is seen by ecopsychologists as being at the heart of our current ecological crisis.
Ecopsychology questions whether it is still enough or appropriate to limit therapy to practices exclusively between (usually two) people, in the confines of a room with four walls and a ceiling.
It calls out the anthropocentric bias (the belief that we as humans are the most important entity in the universe) inherent in traditional Western psychology and appeals to our deepest, creative selves. It requires therapists, quite literally, to think and feel ‘outside of the box’, in order to find therapeutic responses to the many associated conflicts, divisions and oppressions occurring both internally and externally.