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If you search google for the phrase climate change counselling , one of first results is a website for a Christchurch practice called Lucid Psychotherapy, which offers ecotherapy services.
Ecotherapy - according to Lucid - is an approach within counselling, psychotherapy, and psychology that recognises the importance of our environment. Ultimately ecotherapy understands that personal and environmental health are interdependent, and cannot ultimately be separated, the website says.
Psychotherapist Michael Apathy works at Lucid Psychotherapy and has been using ecotherapy to help others for about eight or nine years.
Demand is on the rise, he says - although it s an odd one .