Jennifer L Moore, LMFT

11/06/2025

Every person who walks into therapy needs a different solution. Be wary of any online influencer therapist who paints broad strokes and gives broad solutions.

10/19/2025

If you want a person to share their heart with you, you have to come to the conversation in three ways, curiously, nonjudgmentally and without agenda.

10/16/2025

It can be painful to learn you've done something that hurts your partner. Emotionally mature partners accept responsibility for it without trying to defend it, explain it away, shift blame or beat themselves up.

09/30/2025

If I had to choose one couples therapy intervention, and it was the only one I could ever use again, I would pick:

"I'm sorry."

If you don't know how to say I'm sorry and mean it, your relationship is doomed.

09/23/2025

American Psychiatric Associations response to recent claims made by the current administration.

09/03/2025

If you don't want to come to couples therapy, just try giving your partner what I do. It's just one hour of your undivided attention during which you cannot talk about you, cannot criticize, judge, or touch them and aim to make them say the phrase, "omg i feel so much better." I guarantee your relationship will improve.

07/17/2025

Starting a new blog series called "things I tend to repeat a lot." Maybe there's something in there you need to hear! (Again)

Since my first session as a therapist I have noticed that I repeat myself. From client to client, regardless of age, problem or goal, there are some things that I say over and over. I thought, hmm, maybe I should just write them all down once and you can read them whenever you need. Today we start w

03/06/2025

Thinking of everyone tonight as the wind howls outside. Don't forget you experienced a scary thing less than six months ago. It's normal to feel uneasy tonight.

01/30/2025

Please use coping skills with discretion.

Coping skills serve to help us regulate our emotional experience to get through difficult times.

They don't make the difficult times less difficult.

They also don't serve as a benefit to help us cope with that which should be iradicated.

01/07/2025

Criticism is harmful to relationships. It's a hurtful thing to do to your partner, and it's a hurtful thing to do to yourself.

12/17/2024

If you live in the CSRA and christmas doesn't feel quite right this year, or your stress is higher than usual and you're judging yourself, I'd just like to remind you that we had a devastating hurricane that we are not yet recovered from. It's not a normal year, and you might need extra doses of holiday grace this year. It won't be perfect and that's okay.

12/10/2024

Your partner will not understand you better by hearing what you think of them.