About me
Caroline Hickman is a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Bath, researching children and young people’s emotional responses to climate change in the UK, Brazil, The Maldives, Nigeria & USA. For a decade, she has examined eco-anxiety & distress, eco-empathy, trauma, moral injury and the impact of climate anxiety on family relationships. She is lead researcher & author on a 2021 quantitative global study into children & young people’s emotions & thoughts about climate change to be published in The Lancet Planetary Health.
A practicing psychotherapist and board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, Caroline has been developing a range of therapeutic services for ecological distress including a psychological assessment model for eco-anxiety, and delivered workshops in climate psychology, emotional resilience and mental health internationally.
