Tend is a self-paced companion for climate distress.
A guided course built on climate psychology, cognitive-behavioural therapy, and grounding practice. It helps you carry these feelings without being carried away by them.
Worry, grief, anger, and a quiet dread about the future are healthy responses to a real situation. Feeling them does not mean something is wrong with you. If a piece of climate news lands hard, or the feeling sits with you through the workday, you are far from alone.
Most of us were simply never given the tools to hold a feeling this size. Tend is built to be those tools.
"Climate anxiety is increasingly common and a natural response to a real threat, not a personal failing." Synthesised from Clayton et al., 2017 (American Psychological Association)
Open the app and start where you are. There's no syllabus you must finish, just rooms to walk into when you need them.
Begin with the Climate Reactions Screener, twelve quick questions across four dimensions of distress and resilience. It gives you an honest snapshot, and a way to watch it shift over time.
Move through three phases (Stabilize, Connect, Advocate) at whatever pace fits your week. Lessons are short, 3 to 10 minutes, and build on what came before.
Use grounding exercises when the wave gets big, journal what surfaces, and turn each section into an ongoing challenge. A daily check-in tracks your trend.
Tend brings together a guided curriculum and a set of everyday tools, so support is there both for hard moments and for the steady work.
Ten modules across three phases, drawing on climate psychology, CBT, and acceptance-and-commitment work. From naming your emotions to building a sustainable plan for action.
Breathwork, sensory anchoring, and body-based exercises for when a wave of distress gets big. Open it any time, no lesson required.
A guided space to put feelings into words and work through unhelpful thinking patterns, the core CBT skill of separating thoughts from facts.
Each section becomes an ongoing practice you keep building, day by day, so insight becomes something you actually live.
A short daily check-in tracks how you're doing over time, and the Climate Reactions Screener (CEDAR) gives you a four-dimension picture of both your distress and your resilience. Retake it whenever you like to see the trend.
Tend doesn't rush you toward action. It steadies you first, reconnects you to what you love, and only then turns toward doing.
Meet yourself. Make space. Steady the nervous system.
What you love. Who you stand with. The futures worth working toward.
From caring to doing, at your scale, with your people.
Tend draws on the established psychology of climate emotion and on therapies with decades of evidence behind them, adapted specifically for the distress of living through the climate crisis.
No. Tend is a self-paced psychoeducation and skills course. It teaches evidence-based tools, but it isn't therapy and isn't a substitute for professional mental-health care.
The course includes a short module on safety and support, and points you toward climate-aware therapists and communities if you'd like more. If you're in crisis, please reach out to a local crisis line or a professional.
Tend is free to use. There's no subscription, no paywalled lessons, and no upsell.
No. There's no sign-up. Anything you enter, such as your name, journal entries, and screener results, stays on your own device. Tend is built to be private by default.
It's entirely self-paced. Individual lessons run 3 to 10 minutes, and there are 39 of them across the full course. There are no streaks to keep and no deadlines. Some weeks you'll want to read and reflect, other weeks you'll just want a grounding practice. Both count.
Anyone carrying worry, grief, anger, or overwhelm about climate change, whether that's a constant background hum or something that flares up with the news. You don't need a diagnosis or a certain "level" of distress to benefit.
It's a twelve-question check-in that scores four dimensions: your emotional response, how much distress is disrupting daily life, the support around you, and your motivation to act. It measures resilience as well as distress, so you get a balanced picture, and you can retake it any time to see how things are shifting.
Tend is open, free, and waiting whenever you are. Start with one short lesson, or just take the screener and see where you stand.