Speaking & Community Engagement

Climate change isn’t just a technical challenge: it’s a deeply human one.
Leslie works with individuals, organizations, and communities to meet this moment with resilience, clarity, and compassion.

Whether speaking to scientists, mental health professionals, activists, or the general public, Leslie weaves research, storytelling, and practical insight into presentations that inform, inspire, and equip audiences to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world.

Leslie’s past engagements include:

• Aspen Ideas Festival
• Aspen Ideas Climate
• Bioneers
• BloombergGreen Seattle
• Global Forum for Climate Justice

Supporting Organizations & Frontline Workers

Burnout prevention • Emotional resilience • Workplace culture change

Staff in environmental nonprofits, climate advocacy agencies, faith and civic leadership, journalism, and climate science face climate impacts every day. I help organizations build systems of support so teams can sustain their mission without sacrificing well-being.

Leslie’s past clients include:

• 350.org
• Post Carbon Institute
• Earthjustice
• NOAA

Climate Curriculum for Schools

Elementary • Secondary • University

Leslie designs emotionally intelligent curriculum to help students understand climate change and navigate their feelings about it—fostering both resilience and agency. Much of this work draws from her APA-published climate emotions workbooks for kids.

Training the Mental Health Field

Climate-aware care • CE credits available

Mental health professionals are on the frontlines of a growing need: climate-aware practice. Leslie offers skill-building programs that integrate climate science, psychology, and trauma-informed care.

Training options:

Climate Psychology Certification through the California Institute of Integral Studies. This is the only University-based, professional certification program that brings together climate science and emerging psychological perspectives and interventions to address climate change through a behavioral science lens. It is an in-depth, skill-building, live online clinical program with sterling guest faculty and international participation.

      PESI Eco-Anxiety and Climate Distress: Trauma-Informed Strategies for the Anxiety, Stress and Grief of Ecological Uncertainty. A three-hour introductory workshop with live and prerecorded options. Self-paced video option can be found here.

      Cascadia Developing a Climate-Aware Practice: Working with Climate Anxiety, Eco-Anxiety, and Environmental Grief. A three-hour live online introductory workshop. Self-paced video option can be found here.

PBS NEWS HOUR INTERVIEW

recent past events

Recent Past Events

Ask Me Anything (about climate psychology and resilience)

Virtual and free. University of California, Merced

Virtual California Science Educators Conference

Pairing Climate Science and Emotional Resiliency for the Middle School Classroom

Climate Change and Mental Health

APA-DIV34

Conversations: Emotional Climate Resilience

With May Bartlett at Solvable

Health in the Climate Crisis: Integrative Approaches for Individuals & Communities

Bastyr University

Psychological Insights for Climate Action

Citizen’s Climate Lobby

The Urgent Need for Climate Aware Therapy

Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study

Mind Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology

Commonwealth Club, San Francisco.

An Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators

Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany

Climate Anxiety

CalPsychiatry Mindstories, Podcast

Climate Educators Conference

Keynote Address, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools

A New Approach to Sustainable Action

Project InsideOut

Cultivating Resilience and Preparing for Fire Season:  Mental & Emotional Health

Integrative Healers Action Network

Psychotherapy and a Changing Planet: Climate Psychology

JFK University

Cultivating Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Crisis

SFVillage, San Francisco, CA

Learning to Treat Eco-Anxiety

Marin CAMFT, Corte Madera, CA

Harbor Women’s Wellness Weekend

Gig Harbor, Tacoma Community College, WA

Change the World on Your Terms, Your Sphere of Influence

Guest Lecturer, Sonoma State University, CA

Changing the Climate on Climate Change

King’s Bookstore, Tacoma WA. With Tom Koontz and Steven Neshyba.

Development as Freedom Program

Guest Lecturer, Evergreen State College, WA

Psychotherapy for a Changing Planet

CAMFT, Santa Rosa Chapter, CA

Clinical Applications of Deep Imagination, and Reinventing Ourselves in the Era of Climate Change

Spiru Haret University: Bucharest, Romania

Activism in the New Climate

Kosmos online symposium.

Psychotherapy for a Changing Planet

Sierra Foothills CAMFT, Auburn, Ca.

Relational Engagement for Climate Change: Scientists and Community

UC Davis, held in Calistoga, CA

Clinical Applications of Guided Imagery

Staff training — Haight Ashbury Psychological Services, San Francisco

Radio Interview KXRN 93.5 FM (Laguna Beach, Ca.)

Clinical Applications of Deep Imagination

Staff Training –West County Health Centers, Guerneville, Ca.

CD Release Concert and Benefit: Healing Harp and Imagery Concert

Radio Interview: Activating Compassion in the Midnight Hour Show

Integrative Healing for Cancer Care:  California Pacific Medical Center

Deep Imagination: A Gateway to Healing and Transformation: Golden Gate Counseling Center

UCSF Social Work Retreat

Staff Training in Guided Imagery: East Bay Agency for Children

Radio Interview Hope, Healing and Wellbeing

Radio Interview,  CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Nonduality Street

Awakening Your Heart Wisdom Rancho La Puerta, Tecate, Mexico

Radio Interview WCOM 103.5 FM in Chapel Hill, NC Three Steps Forward Radio

Radio Interview  KUSF 90.3 FM, Mind and Body Radio

Radio Interview Health Beat Radio

Guided Imagery to Support Grief Sutter Hospice

Radio Interview The Wellness Author’s Show

Healing Arts Day for Veterans  Swords to Plowshares and the Institute for Health and Healing

Radio Interview, KMBH, Public Radio 88FM  It’s Your Health Radio

Revive, Thrive & Restore to the Core Wellness Retreat Renaissance Club Sport, Walnut Creek, Ca.

 Radio Interview  Speaking from the Heart

Radio Interview Out the Box Show

ABC7 News Guided Imagery for Female Veterans

Radio Interview Authentic Health Coaching

 Science and Nonduality Conference Presenter  Science and Nonduality Conference

Radio Interview Inspirational Conversations Radio Show

Radio Interview iFit Family Radio

Video Interview With Remy Chausse.

ABC7 News Anxiety and Aubrey Huff

Speaker Integrative Medicine Forum  UCSF Integrative Medicine Network

Radio Interview, Cultivating Intuition with Guided Imagery Feminine Soul Radio

Radio Interview, Creating Change: The Connection between Creativity and Healing Doug Foresta Show

Radio Interview, Stress Management Tips Boomer and Babe Show

Radio Interview, How Self Guided Imagery Helps Healing WomenSpeak Radio