Saunders Moore LMFT, ACC

I specialize in working with high-achieving women navigating the specific pressures of leadership, identity, and transition — the exhaustion of being “the strong one,” the quiet grief of outgrowing a career or relationship that once fit, the anxiety of redefining success on your own terms. With a background spanning clinical psychology and leadership coaching, I understand both the internal patterns and the external systems you’re operating in. This is rebuilding from the inside out.

Grief doesn’t follow a timeline. It rarely looks like what we’re told it should. I work with clients navigating loss in its many forms — death, divorce, career endings, the loss of an identity you once built your life around. My approach integrates somatic and trauma-informed practices to help you metabolize grief rather than bypass it. You’ll leave with a felt sense of why you’re feeling what you’re feeling, and tools to move through it without losing yourself.

Burnout isn’t a time-management problem — it’s a nervous system and identity problem, and most people treat only the surface. I work with clients (especially high-achieving professionals) who’ve hit the wall after years of overfunctioning. We address what’s driving the pattern — perfectionism, fear of not-enoughness, a self-worth tied to output — alongside concrete, somatic tools to regulate your body in real time.

I’m certified level II AEDP- an attachment-based, experiential approach that works with emotion as it’s happening in the room — not just talking about feelings, but processing them in real time, in a relationship that itself becomes part of the healing. This is especially effective for clients who’ve done “insight work” before but still feel stuck — it’s a core part of how I help clients metabolize grief, trauma, and transition rather than simply manage them from a distance.

My orientation is integrative by design and training. I draw on AEDP, somatic and trauma-informed practices, and IFS-informed parts work, selecting what’s clinically indicated session to session rather than forcing clients into one framework. This flexibility is shaped by 10 years spanning clinical psychology and corporate leadership strategy — I move fluidly between emotional depth work and practical, strategic problem-solving, depending on what the moment requires.

I draw on IFS-informed parts work to help clients understand the different “parts” of themselves driving conflicting thoughts, behaviors, and reactions. It’s about building a compassionate relationship with all of them, including the ones causing the most friction. My training in this comes from an Embody Labs certification in somatic parts work as well as CEUs, reading, and my own personal IFS therapy.