Louis Moore (He/him)

My Approach to Helping

Talk therapy can be long, ineffective, expensive, and even harmful for OCD and severe anxiety-related conditions. Instead of just talking it out, I help clients build bravery, self-trust, and self-compassion by facing fear in a meaningful and empowering way by taking action. At the same time, I work to help those reduce and eliminate ineffective attempts to avoid distressing internal experiences that may provide initial relief from symptoms, but ultimately worsen them in the long-term. As a result, I help clients get unstuck and achieve real and measurable results as well as build a life they find fulfilling and rewarding. As an OCD and anxiety specialist I use exposure-based therapy blended with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients recover in a tangible and meaningful way. I provide virtual/online therapy and in-person intensive therapy sessions out of the office and in the real-world for those in the Portland, Oregon community.

My Approach to Helping

Based on solid behavioral science, exposure therapy takes several forms for different purposes. All forms involve the concept that the avoidance of what causes anxiety makes it more debilitating and distressing in the long-term. By starting easy and working up to more difficult tasks, clients are empowered to willingly approach fear in situations that they hopelessly avoid. Approaching and opening to the experience of fear enables a process called inhibitory learning and may also result in habituation. The key mechanism, Inhibitory learning, helps the body recognize false alarms of danger and to shut down an over active fight or flight response. This reduces the severity and interference of symptoms in daily life. I provide the following types of Exposure therapies: Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD, Interoceptive Cue Exposure for Panic, Prolonged Exposure for PTSD, Social Exposures for Social Anxiety Disorder, and Exposures for phobias.