About Allison

How I Came to This Work

I am a writer, scholar, teacher, and maternal mental health counselor. My work lives where motherhood, trauma, ecological crisis, and care meet.

 

I came to this field by listening. For years, mothers described experiences that did not fit the language available to them: birth trauma, climate fear, grief for the worlds their children may inherit, and a love so intense it made ecological loss feel newly personal. Their distress was bound up with the living world, and so was their healing. Maternal Ecopsychology grew from that recognition. I developed it in collaboration with maternal psychologist Aurélie Athan as a way to understand how becoming a mother can transform our relationship with the Earth.

 

I live and work in northern New Mexico, where juniper, stone, weather, and long horizons are my teachers. My forthcoming book, Mother Juniper: On Matrescence in Ecological Crisis, brings these strands together, tracing maternal ecodistress through research, memoir, and ecological observation, and asking what mothers can become when supported in restoring their bond with the living world.

Affiliations

I teach in the Mythological Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and serve as faculty in the Regenerative Health for a Climate Changing World MA/PhD program at Ubiquity University, offered in partnership with Climate Change and Consciousness. I completed my postdoctoral work as a Matrescence Research Fellow at KHORA Lab, Teachers College, Columbia University, and continue collaborating through the Maternal Ecopsychology CoLab, directed by Aurélie Athan. I am also a Consulting Scientist on a Schmidt Sciences Catalyst Grant led by Britt Wray at CIRCLE, Stanford School of Medicine, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Mental Health and Climate Change. I am the developer of the Maternal Ecopsychology Certification™, a professional training with an interdisciplinary focus connecting maternal psychology, ecopsychology, trauma studies, and climate-aware care.

Biography

Allison Claire Davis, MS, LPC, PhD, is an author, scholar, teacher, and maternal mental health counselor whose work explores motherhood, trauma, ecological crisis, and care. She owns Southwest Perinatal Counseling, a perinatal mental health practice serving Texas and Colorado, and is the author of the forthcoming book Mother Juniper: On Matrescence in Ecological Crisis (9th House Press, November 2026).

She holds an MS in Counseling and Development and a PhD in Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies from Texas Woman's University. With Kimberly C. Merenda, she is co-editor of Mothering in Climate Change Precarity in North America, a collection under peer review with Texas A&M University Press as part of the Texas Woman's University Book Series.

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