Barbara
Easterlin

Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D. is clinical psychologist and a member of the American Psychological Association’s newly formed Climate Change Psychology Community of Scholars and Practitioners. Until 2020, Barbara was a member of the UC Berkeley Psychology Department’s clinical faculty. Currently, she is the Co-Executive Director of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, a non-profit dedicated to supporting therapists working at the intersection of mental health and climate change, as well as front-line workers in journalism, healthcare, agriculture, and environmental science. In addition to offering well-being workshops for climate-impacted workers and researchers, she has trained hundreds of therapists on this topic and has co-developed a 60-hour Climate Psychology Certificate Program, the first and only comprehensive training for mental health clinicians on this topic.