Individual, organizational and event-based mental health support built for climate activists

Our Services

  • Climate-aware psychotherapy, counseling and coaching support for individual climate activists delivered online by trained professionals. While climate distress is not a mental health ‘disorder,’ it can intersect with and exacerbate pre-existing challenges like anxiety, depression and PTSD.

    Coaching is available throughout the world. Clinical services, including psychotherapy and counseling, are offered as allowed by law. Please read more below about where our providers work, the differences between clinical and non-clinical services or contact us to find out whether you’re eligible to receive services.

    Participants are offered a set number of sessions as determined by need and availability with the possibility to request more. Individual services are offered at no-cost but activists who have the financial capacity to do so are invited to offer a donation to Frontline Resilience to support us in serving more activists who otherwise could not access mental health support.

    You can read more about providers’ approaches, credentials and offerings below.

  • Online, in-person and hybrid workshops, groups and retreats for organizations in the climate movement. These offerings are diverse and include group counseling, trauma-informed mindfulness, nature connection, deep ecology, The Work that Reconnects, climate cafes, emotional resilience and conflict resolution. Daylong and multi-day retreats are also a possibility.

    Please see our facilitators offerings below; we can also collaborate with you to create customized offerings to fit your organizational needs.

    We strive to offer as many services as possible to grassroots organizations at no-cost. While we are happy to work with well-resourced organizations, we invite you to offer a donation to Frontline Resilience to support us in continuing to working with grassroots organizations.

  • Integrated mental health support for in-person events ranging from actions to larger events like COPs and climate weeks.

    Offerings include brief counseling, crisis support, arrestee care, workshops, climate cafes, resilience circles. We can also customize services based on your needs.

    We strive to offer these services at no-cost to grassroots organizations but some collaborative funding for travel may be necessary depending on the event. Well-resourced organizations are invited to offer a donation or cover the travel costs for facilitators for larger events where smaller organizations can also be supported.

  • Online and on-site mental health support for climate activists working on the frontlines of disaster response, including mutual aid and community care programs.

    Services are adapted to meet the self-identified needs of the community, including crisis support, brief counseling, psychological first aid and emotional resilience groups.

Our Providers

Parker Bowling, LCSW, MSSW

Founder, psychotherapist, coach and facilitator

  • Parker is a climate-aware psychotherapist, social worker, coach and facilitator working at the intersections of mental health, climate justice and engaged spirituality. He weaves together his experience providing climate-aware mental healthcare with his background as a social worker, organizer and developer and facilitator of mindfulness, engaged spirituality and ecology programs.goes here

  • Parker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), which allows him to offer psychotherapy, in KY, VA and VT, as well as in other countries where allowed (the UK, many EU countries and most countries in the Global South.)

    He received his Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Louisville and Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from George Washington University.

    Parker is also an EMDR trained clinician, a mindfulness meditation teacher through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s two-year teacher training program, a member of the Plum Village Order of Interbeing (OI), a Red Cross Disaster Mental Health volunteer and part of the Climate Psychology Alliance.

  • Parker specializes in supporting people who are ready to take a different approach to therapy that gets to the root causes of your symptoms, including internal struggles like anxiety, depression and trauma, as well as their intersection with external stressors like political instability and climate change. Rather than focusing just on a diagnosis, we will work together to understand the origins of your suffering and then co-create an actionable path towards both healing and living a more meaningful life. He weaves together eclectic modalities like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with foundational somatic and mindfulness frameworks.

    He is committed to and experienced in offering gender-affirming care, support for people who identify as LGBTQ and anti-racist mental healthcare.

    You can visit his website here to learn more or see his Psychology Today profile for more information about his clinical approaches.

  • Parker has experience facilitating a range of workshops, events and retreats, including trauma-informed mindfulness, The Work that Reconnects, Climate Cafes, spiritual ecology, nature connection, regenerative farming and emotional resilience.

    He is happy to work with you to customize his offerings to fit your groups needs and goals.

  • Parker offers coaching sessions online for people located across the world. He is licensed to offer psychotherapy to US residents living in KY, VT and VA. He offers counseling for people outside of the US as allowed by their respective countries. Please inquire below about whether your country qualifies.

    He is based in Barcelona and currently only offers individual services online between 9am-6pm Central European Time.

    He facilitates workshops and groups online and is willing to travel as needed, particularly within the EU and UK. He regularly returns to the US and can schedule in-person offerings during these times. He can travel to other locations, including COPs and climate weeks, with sufficient notice and funding.

  • You can read more about Parker’s work at parkerbowling.com or his Psychology Today profile.

Frontline Resilience is currently recruiting qualified mental health providers and facilitators to join our network.

If you’re interested, please inquire on the form below.

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