Research
Published research
Peer-reviewed journal articles from the AkindaCo team. This is the evidence base that our family therapy training and art therapy training are built on, not a separate academic sideline. For conference work, see conference presentations.
Peer-reviewed · ANZJFT · 2025
A Relational Approach in Ecological Collapse: Applying Gehart's Therapy That Works to Climate Distress in Families
Climate distress read as a relational and systemic response to ecological collapse rather than an individual psychological disorder, illustrated through a family case example.
Read the summary →Peer-reviewed · PACJA · 2022
Climate change-related distress within the dominant mental health paradigm: Problems, pitfalls, and a possible way forward
A critique of individual-pathology models of climate distress, proposing the Power Threat Meaning Framework as a better fit.
Read the summary →Who publishes this work
Rana Kökçinar is AkindaCo's Senior Psychotherapist, Family Therapist and Education Lead, and the author or co-author of every paper listed here. Paula Gillespie-Fotheringham, AkindaCo's founder and Managing Director, is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and holds a ResearchGate profile. Meet the full team.
AkindaCo also partners with a number of higher education institutions to support emerging psychotherapists, art therapists and family therapists through placement and beyond.
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