FIVE of the candidates in a Trowbridge ward set aside their political differences for a few hours to take part in a community litter pick. Conservatives Antonio Piazza and Ashton Rose Griffin joined Liberal Democrats Andrew Bryant, Denise Bates and Sara Heywood and local residents to help tidy up Drynham Lane. The move follows the installation of a new litter bin at the end of Drynham Lane, opposite the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet on the Spitfire Retail Park. Trowbridge Town Council recently agreed to budget £40,000 a year to fund litter bin services over the next two years. Mr Piazza, who has been pressing for the bin, said: “I initially asked back in October, on behalf of the Drynham cottages, so I’m extremely delighted to have delivered on this promise to them and the ward.
With climate anxiety on the rise, therapists are learning how to cope
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Therapists Are Reckoning with Eco-anxiety
With no training, counselors feel unequipped to handle the growing number of people anxious about the climate emergency
April 19, 2021
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Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one, but the young man couldn’t stop envisioning this hypothetical child growing up in an apocalyptic, climate-changed world.
Bryant was used to guiding people through their relationship conflicts, anxieties about the future, and life-changing decisions. But this felt different personal. Bryant had long felt concerned about climate change, but in a distant, theoretical way. The patient’s despair faced him with an entirely new reality: that climate change would directly impact his life and the lives of future generations.
Therapists Are Seeing More Patients Struggle With Climate Anxiety
Mental health professionals are developing a new standard of mental health care for our climate-changed world.
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Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one, but the young man couldn’t stop envisioning this hypothetical child growing up in an apocalyptic, climate-changed world.