Biography

Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D., is a clinician and consultant specializing in climate psychology. She teaches clinical workshops and develops educational and training materials for mental health clinics on the trajectory of the climate emergency, its psychological consequences, and how to help people to develop agency and resilience when engaging with this difficult topic. She is Co-President of Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA) and is the co-creator of the Climate Psychology Certificate Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Barbara has a master’s degree in Environmental Psychology from UC Irvine and has worked for many years as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC Berkeley and UCSF where she specialized in neuropsychological assessment and behavioral parenting.