In addition to being a lecturer at the University of Bath, Dr. Caroline Hickman has a background in mental health social work and has worked closely with a number of community mental health projects. Her background lends itself to her unique focus on examining the impacts of climate change on mental health and anxiety, particularly eco-anxiety and distress, eco-empathy, trauma, moral injury and the impact of climate anxiety on relationships. She joins Next Steps Forward host Chris Meek to discuss her 2021 quantitative global study into 10,000 children and young people's emotions and thoughts about climate change, the range of therapeutic approaches she is working to develop in response to ecological distress and why climate change anxiety must be treated differently than other anxieties.