CLIMATE-AWARE MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTHCARE
A 6-module credit-eligible course for mothersand helping professionals who want to provide climate-conscious, resilience-based care navigating eco-distress.
Tired of Feeling Like Current Models of Care Miss the Bigger Picture?
Traditional maternal mental health care often leaves out one critical truth: we are raising the next generation in the midst of ecological crisis. Mothers are feeling it—and you’re likely feeling it and seeing it in other mothers.
This course offers the frameworks, tools, and language to respond effectively, ethically, and with care.
There is Hope. You Don’t Have to Navigate This Alone.
This course offers a grounded, evidence-informed path forward. You’ll learn how to:
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Recognize and assess maternal ecological distress
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Use nature-based and eco-developmental practices
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Integrate climate awareness into maternal care without increasing fear
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Support post-traumatic growth and ecological identity formation
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: Foundations of Climate-Aware Maternal Mental Healthcare
- Explore the ecological gap in PMAD care
- Understand how climate change impacts maternal identity and wellbeing
- Examine structural barriers to maternal mental health
- Reflection: Identify ecological blind spots in your practice
Module 2: Maternal Eco-Distress and Post-Traumatic Growth
- Differentiate eco-anxiety, eco-grief, and maternal ecological distress
- Learn to use the Climate Distress and Impairment Index (CDI)
- Support post-traumatic growth in the context of climate crisis
Module 3: Ecological Assessment with the BPS-E-S Model
- Move beyond traditional biopsychosocial frameworks
- Integrate ecological-spiritual domains into assessment
- Consider cultural, systemic, and planetary contexts of maternal distress
Module 4: Narrative Integration and the Green Thread
- Use story as a healing response to ecological rupture
- Facilitate narrative repair and eco-identity formation
- Deepen client connection to intergenerational resilience
Module 5: Nature-Based Interventions for Maternal Healing
- Understand nature as co-regulator and eco-witness
- Explore accessible, sensory-based eco-practices
- Design trauma-informed, ritual-based healing tools
Module 6: Legacy, Justice, and Intergenerational Healing
- Address reproductive justice in the climate context
- Support clients in processing climate grief and future visioning
- Facilitate legacy work as part of clinical care
GROUP CONSULTATION
While this course is fully asynchronous, optional live Q&A and integration sessions will be available during the 6-module course for deeper discussion, case consultation, and connection.
*2 hours of group or equivalent 1:1 sessions are required for full credit.
YOUR FACILITATOR
Dr. Allie Davis, MS, LPC, PhD, is a maternal mental health ecotherapist, ecofeminist scholar, and founder of the Maternal Ecopsychology Institute. With decades of experience supporting mothers, she brings clinical depth, academic rigor, and grounded compassion to this emerging field.
What Others Are Saying
“Not only do I learn how to be a better counselor from the courses taught by Dr. Davis, I also learn about myself. This all feeds into my professionalism and level of expertise. I appreciate the time and engagement Dr. Davis brings to every course she teaches.”
Graduate Clinical Counseling Student
(Anonymous Teaching Evaluation)
“Dr. Davis is a true gem. It takes a special person to teach well and still be compassionate and understanding. If I didn’t know her, I would want her to be my counselor.”
Graduate Clinical Counseling Student
(Anonymous Teaching Evaluation)
This Course Is for You If
• You’re a mother, peer-supporter, therapist, doula, nurse, or wellness professional working with mothers and caregivers
• You’ve sensed the climate crisis surfacing in maternal mental health (yours & others) but haven’t had the language to respond
• You want to integrate eco-spiritual, relational, and nature-based practices into your clinical approach
• You need CEUs that also nourish your soul
