LB, a white nonbinary person with dark curly hair and glasses, is laughing.

Photo by Sage Orville

Howdy! I’m LB Moore.

My people are Ashkenazi and Irish bloodkin, beautiful queer and disabled lineages, and land-reverent healing workers. My recent known ancestors of blood were nourished by the waters and life of Éire (Ireland) and the diasporic shtetls of Cherta Osedlosti (Pale of Settlement) before finding their way to Turtle Island (the so-called “United States”) in the 17th and 20th centuries, fleeing violence. Following generations of coerced and chosen assimilation into whiteness, I navigate a legacy of dislocation, healing, and responsibility as a settler on stolen land.

I am currently connected to the valley of the Kwinitekw, the Great Tidal River, whose waters, peoples, and beyond-human kin have nourished this land for thousands of years. Growing in this community, I actively engage in the work of tending lineages of blood, place, and relationship through listening, ritual, embodied learning, and action.

I am a weaver of many threads. My work and ways of being are deeply shaped by the wisdom of the land, my/our bod(ies), neuroqueer brilliance, trauma theory, and diverse & interwoven liberation movements. These ways of being are expressed, in part, through the offerings of Ampersand Healing.

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My Approach is:

  • trauma-responsive,

  • strengths-based and non-pathologizing,

  • embodied and animist,

  • affirming of gender expansiveness, disability, neurodiversity, bodies of all sizes, ethical non-monogamy, asexuality, sex work, and kink,

  • pro-Black and Indigenous (including for a free Palestine),

  • invested in embodying and co-creating remedies to White Supremacy Culture,

  • invested in disrupting carceral systems, including of mental health care,

  • full of laughter, and

  • dynamic—weaving together threads from diverse ways of knowing, including ecology, neuroscience, polyvagal theory, Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Jewish and Irish ancestral healing traditions, and more.

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LB Moore, M.Ed., M.Ed., LMHC, MCCS, TCTSY-F is a therapist, clinical researcher, community educator, and organizational consultant whose work focuses on embodied liberation, building trauma-transformative communities, and centering radical health for all trans, nonbinary, and intersex people. They are affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital as a member of the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project team (PI: Sabra Katz-Wise), and have previously worked in community-based mental health, with a focus on serving LGBTQ+ youth of color and HIV-impacted communities. Their interests center on relationships between bodies, land, histor(ies), and futures.

Decoding the letters after their name: LB holds two Master's degrees in education (M.Ed.) from Boston University, as well as post-graduate training in embodied trauma transformation, organizational leadership, clinical ‘supervision,’ and advanced clinical work from the Center for Trauma and Embodiment, the Embody Lab, Boston College, Bridgewater State University, Horticultural Therapy Institute, and beyond. They are a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association Certified Clinical Supervisor (MCCS), and a Certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F).

In addition to their direct clinical work, educational offerings, and provider support, LB has provided organizational consulting services for nonprofits seeking to expand their trauma-informed and gender-inclusive practice, including Planned Parenthood and the Center for Trauma and Embodiment.

The *CLINICAL* Bio

Tracing Roots & Soil

My ever-evolving work is nourished by the teachings and relationships of many people, communities, and ways of knowing.

While my gratitude and connections extend far beyond this distilled list, the work of Ampersand Healing is dramatically shaped by:

  • my ancestors—of blood, movement, and kinship,

  • my many living beloveds,

  • dear mentor-friends, such as dr. d and Halen Earle,

  • the Taproot Immersion community,

  • Marika Clymer’s Energetic Ecology framework,

  • generous authors and thinkers, including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, N. K. Jemisin, Thich Nhat Hanh, and adrienne marie brown, and

  • my plantcestors*, with special shout-outs to plantain, dandelion, & garlic.

    *”This terminology was coined and popularized by Layla Kristy Feghali, founder of River Rose Apothecary, to honor, express, explore, and revive a deeper relationship to these ancestral paradigms and understandings through her own body of practice.”

An ancestral pillar candle burns, ensconced in a round glass bowl and seated among stones, pine needles, and a rose quartz. The bowl is nestled in an owl-patterned bandana.

Photo by Sage Orville, objects mine