Biography

Allison Davis, MS, LPCC, PhD, is a counselor, educator, and researcher. She is in private practice in New Mexico where she specializes in treating environmental trauma in the perinatal period. She is Adjunct Faculty in the Masters Clinical Counseling Program at Alliant International University and the inaugural Matrescence Research Fellow in the Maternal Psychology Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Her innovative research on maternal ecodistress is being published in the peer-reviewed journal Ecopsychology. Dr. Davis is Editor of Mothering in a Time of Climate Change Precarity in North America under consideration by Texas Woman’s University’s “Pioneering Women” book series. She is also Editor of the Journal of Mental Health and Climate Change and consults on maternal climate- and environment-related distress with businesses, nonprofits, and activist organizations.

She graduated from Texas Woman’s University, where she earned her doctorate in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies for researching the effects of posttraumatic stress on the life pathways of adolescents experiencing incarceration, as well as a Masters in Counseling and Development. She now conducts research on psychoecological development, the efficacy of matrescence education, and the ecological domain of maternal development through an ecofeminist lens.