Training in Maternal Ecopsychology
An emerging field integrating maternal mental health, ecological psychology, and attachment in the context of climate disruption.
NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7936)
Maternal ecopsychology responds to a growing gap in maternal mental health care. Many professionals are encountering forms of maternal distress that cannot be understood solely through individual pathology or interpersonal dynamics. Ecological instability, systemic precarity, and disrupted attachment to place are increasingly shaping maternal experience.
This field offers language and structure for what clinicians, educators, and practitioners are already witnessing in their work.
Current Trainings
Foundations of Maternal Ecopsychology: Ecodistress, Ecotherapy, and Relational Healing
This course introduces maternal ecopsychology as a field for understanding maternal mental health within ecological, relational, and systemic context. Many mothers today are carrying more than individual stress. They are responding to ecological grief, climate anxiety, and forms of disconnection shaped by social and environmental instability. Traditional approaches often locate these experiences within the individual. Maternal ecopsychology restores context by bringing psychology, development, and ecology into relationship. In this self paced, two hour continuing education course, participants will engage: • The foundations of maternal ecopsychology and its relevance to contemporary maternal care • The Tree Metaphor and seven principles of maternal wellbeing • Ecologically grounded practices, including expressive ecotherapy and ritual based approaches, that can be integrated into professional work This course is approved for 2 NBCC continuing education units.
$97.00 USD
Maternal Ecopsychology Certification™ Course
This certification offers advanced training in maternal ecopsychology for professionals seeking a rigorous, interdisciplinary framework for maternal care in ecological and systemic context. The program expands how maternal distress is understood and addressed. Rather than locating difficulty within the individual, it situates maternal experience within ecological disruption, relational strain, and cultural conditions that shape caregiving today. Participants engage a research grounded framework for maternal mental health that integrates ecological psychology, attachment theory, trauma informed care, and social analysis. Through this certification, you will engage: • A comprehensive, research based framework for maternal mental health in the context of climate crisis and systemic precarity • Eleven immersive modules including video lectures, peer reviewed readings, and applied reflection assignments • Individualized feedback from Dr Allie Davis on all submitted work • One private one to one integration session and continued participation in monthly group consultations This certification supports practitioners in rooting their work in care that is contextual, relational, and ecologically grounded.
$3,499.00 USD
Practitioner’s Grove
Practitioner’s Grove offers ongoing consultation and integration for professionals working within the field of maternal ecopsychology. This monthly space provides structured reflection on how ecological, attachment informed, and trauma aware frameworks are applied in practice. It is designed to support continuity of learning, conceptual clarity, and ethical development over time. Participants meet monthly in a live consultation group with Dr Allie Davis and have access to a private professional space for ongoing dialogue and inquiry with others engaged in this work. What is included • Monthly sixty minute live consultation with Dr Allie Davis • Continued participation in a private professional consultation space This offering supports integration and reflection. It is not supervision or therapy.
$45.00 USD every month
1:1 Professional Coaching
Personalized guidance to help you integrate Maternal Ecopsychology into your work, your offerings, and your leadership.
If you are deepening your clinical practice, building a new program, shaping curriculum, or developing a research or writing project, these sessions offer strategic clarity, grounded accountability, and tailored feedback.
We focus on alignment. Your values. Your people. Your scope of practice. Your next right steps.
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Your Facilitator
Bridging psychology, ecology, and care for mothers in a climate changing world.
I am Dr. Allie Davis, MS, LPC, PhD, a maternal mental health ecotherapist, researcher, and educator working in the field of Maternal Ecopsychology.
For over a decade, I have supported mothers and trained professionals navigating trauma, ecological distress, and caregiving under strain. My work integrates attachment theory, ecological psychology, and trauma informed care to help practitioners reimagine maternal support as contextual, relational, and ecologically grounded.
My research has been published in Ecopsychology and Women’s Studies International Forum, where I expand matrescence to include ecological development and eco resilience.
“Maternal Ecopsychology invites us to see motherhood as an ecological awakening.”
More About AllieMaternal ecopsychology examines how motherhood unfolds within ecological, relational, and systemic conditions.This work situates mothers within living systems rather than isolating their experiences inside individual diagnosis.
What Professionals are Saying
“This training does exactly that—it brings together the personal, the collective, and the planetary in ways that feel both intellectually rigorous and deeply embodied. Allie is an extraordinary teacher. Her academic depth is immense, yet she communicates with such clarity, enthusiasm, and presence that even complex concepts feel tangible and applicable.”
Izabella Naomi Pedersen, Denmark
(Certification Graduate)
“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
“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
“[The Maternal Ecopsychology Certification®] has deepened my understanding of eco-resilience and shown me how honoring the lived experiences of mothers—and their eco-awakenings—can be powerful catalysts for both personal and collective healing.”
Ana María Cañas, Columbia
(Certification Graduate)
Root & Ritual Wellness, LLC is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7936) offering advanced training in maternal mental health, matrescence, and ecological approaches to care.