Meet Kristin Moore, LCSW

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therapist Kristin Moore

Kristin Moore, LCSW

Licensed clinical social worker

I have been practicing psychotherapy for nearly thirty years, and after learning how much it can add to life, I still am excited to learn more from my clients as they allow me to share their lives and join me in discovery. We can find the way through troubling issues and fit in better ways of coping with more difficult parts of life.

Relief of stressors and stuck places, along with expansion of possibilities, are the goals of my eclectic approach. My own curiosity has led to multiple pieces of training, whether cognitive brain- rewiring, meditative, recovery-based, coaching, relationship and family dynamics. I have multiple modes to choose from or mix, to tune into the right and comfortable pace for the work.

It is most important to feel understood and comfortable with the therapist that you choose, and I welcome a trial meeting in order to learn whether a good fit will emerge in this collaboration of minds.

  • Kristin Moore's Journey to Becoming a Therapist

    My beginning interest in the therapy process was reading a book on Freud when a teenager and deciding that a therapist would be desirable to work with, but the impetus to become an actual practitioner came after an education in fine art, BS from The Cooper Union, Hewitt Prize, and a career building a successful design and manufacturing business, Kristin Moore Ltd., in New York.
    Interest and personal progress generated by engaging in my own therapy experience was the catalyst to higher education, earning a dual Master’s degree with honors, having added a research project focusing on personality testing at Long Island College Hospital in addition to clinical work. It was an adventure to take on dual roles and radical growth and responsibility, and I am grateful for all of it!

  • Education & Experience

    Graduate work began at Fordham University, a dual Master's degree: MSW in clinical Social Work (Dissertation Award) and a Master's in Research, via an extensive project at Long Island College Hospital.
    Clinical licensing in New York State- LCSW- followed, combined with further advanced training at the Center for Psychotherapy as Creative Art. Additions over time include EMDR qualification, accreditation in CBT, Meditation and Psychotherapy at Harvard-Dept of CE, Addictions coursework, Bioenergetic Psychotherapy, Imago Therapy, and many others since.
    As a founding partner of Village Counseling Center in New York City (1993-2016), we provided individual work, couples counseling, and group work. During this time, other experiences included leading a Women’s Recovery group at St. Vincent’s Hospital and as faculty at Parsons Institute.

  • Psychotherapy and the Art of Connection

    I have always resonated intuitively with art, craft, music, literature- they seemed to call forth meaning and connection with self and others. They always will, but the work of unlearning fear, judgment and self-criticism, interpreting and relating to others, and truly connecting with self- all can really awaken in the work on the self which is called psychotherapy.
    I have sought out other paths to “enlightenment”, but find the rigor and restraint in the study of psychology and the training involved in becoming a therapist to be deep, thorough, admirable, and fully grounded- excitingly- in the latest of neuroscience. I have just finished 20 hours of study based on “The Body Keeps the Score”, B. van der Kolk, a deep look at trauma through the lens of neuro-rewiring, and these advancements in treatment are folded into my work.
    Interestingly, parallel study and engagement with an enlivening process similar to therapy has added to my list of important work: the nearly one-hundred-year-old program for becoming free of addiction(s): the 12-Step programs, namely AA and Al-Anon, and their other ensuing variations.

    These programs are based on medical and psychological, and ethical tenets, completely parallel and complementary to psychotherapy. A description by Carl Jung includes the concept of a “moral philosophy,” which could describe the essence of the twelve-step programs and indeed the desired outcome of psychotherapy.

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