
Leslie Davenport
Psychotherapist
Leslie Davenport is a licensed psychotherapist who brings innovative climate solutions to the halls of academia and to the streets. She is the author of four books, including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change and All the Feelings Under the Sun. She was a reviewer for APA’s “Mental Health and our Changing Climate.” Davenport is a founding member of the Institute for Health & Healing at California Pacific Medical Center, and her 25 years of developing an integrative, collaborative healing model has informed her approach to climate justice. She has served on Red Cross Disaster Mental Health teams, and the 350.org Marin Clean Energy Campaign. Davenport teaches a climate psychology module on faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and offers CE workshops that train therapists how to have a climate-aware practice.