About Moriah
Moriah MacCleod is an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor practicing in New Mexico. She draws on 31 years of professional experience to help people manage anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She emphasizes a respectful, collaborative way of working and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
In sessions she listens for strengths and practical steps that fit daily life. She helps people notice what matters to them and try small changes that can reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Background and approach
She also works with trauma, grief, addictions, and relationship concerns by focusing on concrete skills and emotional repair. Moriah uses a mix of approaches to meet different needs. She often blends cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to live around difficult feelings, and client-centered listening to make space for the person in front of her.
For people with traumatic memories she may use EMDR techniques to process disturbing events. Her background includes long-term clinical work across a variety of settings, which shaped a practical, down-to-earth style. She helps people with parenting strain, caregiver stress, family of origin issues, and codependency by setting realistic goals and steady steps forward.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful. People work on managing symptoms like panic or worry, repairing communication, and rebuilding hope after loss or a crisis. Moriah supports clients who want coaching around career or life transitions as well as clinical concerns.
How psychotherapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for chronic anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking that increase worry and replacing them with clearer, more helpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for panic, generalized anxiety, and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships to improve connection and communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist listens to your goals and preferences, explains options, and tries methods that match what you need. This collaborative process can shift over time as symptoms change and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and EMDR work, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins and written exercises between meetings. These formats aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep steady progress.
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What this therapist 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
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