Kelly Moore

My journey in mental health counseling has taken me through diverse settings and populations over the past 7 years. I started as a youth counselor working with at-risk boys under age 18 in Hawaii as a military spouse. After moving to Tennessee, I worked in career services helping unemployed individuals find positions, which ignited my passion for career counseling. I then worked with Youth Villages as a life set transition specialist, helping kids aging out of the foster care system navigate adulthood. I've also worked at the Tennessee Volunteer Challenge Academy providing career counseling to at-risk youth in a quasi-military program, at Renewal House as a program service manager supporting women in recovery and their children, at Fortis as a career service director, at Family and Children's Services as a counseling supervisor, at Vertava Health providing individual counseling, and at Preserve as a lead career readiness counselor working with justice-impacted individuals. Throughout these experiences, I realized that organizational obstacles in community mental health were preventing me from serving clients the way I wanted to, which pushed me to start my own private practice. My mentor was instrumental in helping me make that decision. Now I focus on helping people through transformations and transitions, and I'm especially passionate about supporting counselors themselves through my More Counselors Connect initiative, because counselors are my people too.