ABSTRACT
Climate change is no longer a hypothetical argument but a reality that threatens the existence of human and other-than-human life on the planet. With that information in mind, can we afford to keep practising psychotherapy with a focus on the individual and their personal needs, or do we need to radically question the role of psychotherapy in its lack of relationship to the more-than-human world? This chapter investigates where aspects of psychotherapy may be too closely aligned with the capitalist paradigm, that risks costing us life on Earth. I argue that psychotherapy is at an evolutionary threshold and that as a profession we need to widen the lens of theory in relation to anthropocentrism, individuality, materiality, privatisation, growth, progress and the lack of a cosmological perspective. This is an attempt to open the conversation.
