Howdy, I'm LB. I'm glad you're here. Are you looking for affirming support to explore, grow, and heal? Or perhaps movement-based, non-conversation-based support for navigating the effects of complex trauma? I move alongside trans, nonbinary, intersex, and LGBQA+ folks who are looking for support in connecting with themselves (and others) with more joy and compassion. We'll use a counter-oppressive, strengths-based, collaborative framework to address your needs with care. I also use humor, embodiment, creative expression, and mindfulness to bring depth and realness to our work. Whether you're unearthing and tending to the wounds of trauma or the tense exhaustion of marginalization, setting out on a gender journey, or looking for an affirming provider to help you access care you need, I'd be honored to work with you. Seeking therapy can feel scary, and I honor your efforts to find care that feels best for you. You deserve to feel seen, heard, and held. In our sessions together, we can create a safer container that allows you to be you. All of you. I embody a constellation of statuses and identities that are salient to my work. Some of them are that I'm white, nonbinary (they/ze pronouns), disabled, and Jewish. I have significant experience navigating the medical and mental health systems myself as a client/patient. I live and work on Nipmuc and Nonotuck territories along the Kwinetikw (Western MA--see my more robust land acknowledgment on my website at ampersandhealing.org/honoring-land).

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

Our first session is about (a) beginning to know each other and (b) creating a shared understanding of your needs, hopes, intentions, and strengths. My style is conversational; I am more interested in following what feels important for you to share than to stick to a list of interview questions. I'll invite you to share with me what brings you to this work, what you're hoping for, what any previous experiences of therapy have been like, and what you're hoping I can help with. You're also welcome to ask me about myself or how I approach this work! Important for you to know: billing insurance as a medical service (which is how therapy is understood in our medical-mental health systems) requires me to select a diagnosis and create a treatment plan after our very first meeting. I like to make this explicit so that we can center your needs and a human conversation while also collaborating to meet your insurance-related needs in a way that works best for you. This reality can be tricky to work with, and I'm happy to speak openly about it together. It's your care--my goal is to make it work for you.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

I come to this work through my own body and experience, and this shapes my practice deeply. Some of the skills that I value most--like my empathy, curiosity, connection, critical analysis, and humor--are reflective of my desire to create a radically caring relationship that too many of us have been denied. I am committed to ongoing learning and action in anti-racism, anti-ableism, abolition, decolonization, reproductive justice, addressing intergenerational trauma, community healing, and the transformation of harm. I will never ask or tell you to grow; instead, I will move alongside you as we both do.

About LB Moore