About Moriah
Moriah MacCleod brings a practical, person-focused approach to therapy. She emphasizes the client as the expert in their own life and offers steady support for people facing hard moments. With 31 years of professional experience and an LPCC credential, she helps people find clearer ways forward.
Moriah uses methods that focus on values, present-moment choices, and learning new habits that actually fit daily life. She often combines acceptance-based work with cognitive strategies to reduce unhelpful thinking and increase useful actions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented while honoring each person's pace. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addiction. Moriah also supports people coping with life changes, grief, career pressures, parenting strains, and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family and family-of-origin problems, and communication or commitment difficulties. Therapy sessions focus on practical skills and real problems. Moriah helps people practice new ways of handling strong emotions, improve communication, and make steady progress toward what matters most.
Work may include brief exercises between sessions to reinforce change. People can expect warm listening and direct feedback when useful. She aims to create an environment where clients can try new behaviors, process painful memories safely, and build habits that support lasting improvement.
How Moriah’s Methods Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values, even when feelings are difficult. It emphasizes noticing thoughts without getting stuck and choosing actions that match personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions often include short exercises to practice between meetings. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses troubling memories and strong emotional reactions by helping the brain reprocess distressing events; sessions follow a clear structure and move at the client’s pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaborative process guides whether more acceptance work, cognitive tools, or trauma-focused work is emphasized.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, targeted coaching, or support between sessions so people can keep progress moving despite busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English