Taking care of your Heart when the Earth is changing...

Climate change can affect individuals profoundly, whether you are coping with the loss of a home or livelihood after a natural disaster, raising children in an uncertain and rapidly changing world, responding to unfamiliar climate-related threats as first responders, or carrying the grief and anxiety that arise from witnessing environmental change. These responses are not flaws in thinking or signs that something is wrong with you; they are understandable and deeply human reactions to real and difficult circumstances. You do not need a diagnosis to deserve support.

At Tensegrity Centre for Climate Resilience, our clinicians are trained as both registered social workers and environmental scientists. Geographically diverse and attentive to the lands and communities in which they live, they provide culturally responsive, trauma-informed, evidence-based, and place-based care. Drawing on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and contemporary brief therapies—including solution-focused brief therapy, mindfulness, brief narrative therapy, and competency-based approaches—clinicians support adults in processing climate-related emotions and developing grounding practices rooted in the body, personal values, and connection to the natural world.

We also cultivate what psychologist Joanna Macy calls active hope: not a passive wish that circumstances will improve, but the lived practice of moving forward with purpose amid uncertainty. Because climate-related distress is often collective, group programs offer safe spaces to share grief and anxiety, reduce isolation, foster connection, and build resilience. At Tensegrity Centre, individual support, group processing, community resilience-building, and systemic advocacy come together to help people hold both the reality of climate grief and the possibility of a meaningful, purposeful life.