As a UK-based climate psychologist, Steffi Bednarek works with multi-national companies, global financial institutions and governments to help leaders and their teams overcome the internal obstacles preventing their organisations from taking meaningful climate action.

This article was translated into several languages, including Russian. It explores psychological responses to climate change with the lenses of brain hemisphere imbalance, the fragmentation process of collective trauma and the Jungian maturation theory of two halves of life, which views suffering as a necessary component in the move towards a ripened culture.

In this interview in Therapy Today with BBC journalist Aishling Gallagher, Steffi speaks about eco-anxiety and the challenge this very human response poses to the mental health profession.