Leslie Davenport
2 Courses Available
About Leslie Davenport
Leslie Davenport is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in practice for more than 25 years who is currently working as a Climate Psychology educator and consultant. She is the author of three books, including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician’s Guide. Her fourth book written for young tweens, All the Feelings Under the Sun: A Kid's Guide to Coping with Climate Change, will be released Spring 2021 though the American Psychological Association's children's book division, Magination Press. She is currently on faculty with the School of Professional Psychology and Health at the California Institute for Integral Studies. For more information, visit https://lesliedavenport.com/about-leslie/.
Courses by Leslie Davenport
Developing a Climate-Aware Practice: Working with Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Grief
As clinicians we assess a client’s mental health by considering features such as job and relationship stressors, past trauma, and family history. But emotional distress triggered by climate change is already showing up in our practices and will only increase in the coming years. It’s time to add a climate psychology lens to our assessment and treatment
Building a Climate Aware Practice: 3 hour course
Using a trauma-informed approach, this workshop will teach skillful ways for clients to bring their fear, ambivalence, and disenfranchised grief out into the open with empathetic validation. Assisting clients in navigating the emotional grip of climate distress makes space for heightened curiosity and re-imagining a new relationship with the world. Emotional resiliency tools specific to climate concerns that can immediately be incorporated into clinical practice will be taught.