Biography

Leslie Davenport is an internationally recognized climate psychologist, educator, and therapist working at the intersection of mental health, education, policy, media, and social justice. She is the author of six books, including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change for clinicians, and All the Feelings Under the Sun and What to Do When Climate Change Scares You for younger readers, both published by the American Psychological Association. Her forthcoming APA workbook, Transforming Climate Anxiety: A Workbook for Courage, Clarity, and Collective Action, will be released in August 2026.

A founding member of one of the largest integrative medicine programs in the United States, Leslie brings a public health lens to eco-emotional support and climate resilience. She writes the "Ask a Climate Therapist" column for the award-winning outlet Grist, and serves as an advisor to the Post Carbon Institute, Climate Mental Health Network, and One Resilient Earth. At CIIS, she leads the Climate Psychology Certification program, one of the first of its kind in the nation.

Education

Dominican University of California Master of Science (MS), Counseling Psychology

Mills College Master of Arts (MA), Dance

Academy of Art University, Visual Arts 

Awards & Distinctions

Currently she serves as an Ambassador to THE HERDS, a ground breaking public art and climate initiative that inspires action and renews our connection to the natural world. She is a climate psychology advisor to Project InsideOut, One Resilient Earth, Climate Mental Health Network, and the Post Carbon Institute. She has participated in interdisciplinary climate think tanks hosted by the Post Carbon Institute and Institute for Policy Studies.

Publications

Transforming Climate Anxiety: A Workbook for Courage, Clarity, and Collective Action, American Psychological Association, August 2026

Emotional Resilience in the Era of Climate Change

All the Feelings Under the Sun

What to Do When Climate Change Scares You

Working With Clients Experiencing Climate Distress

A Climate Emotions Workbook: Practices for Personal, Collective, and Planetary Healing (Forthcoming, American Psychological Association)

Collaborations & Contributions

THE HERDS - a vast act of public art and climate action from Congo to the Arctic Circle