Moore Life Counseling

Moore Life Counseling Mental health counseling focused on empowering you to heal, build skills for today, and live a purpose-filled life rooted in hope and freedom.

Moore Life Counseling & Coaching provides counseling and coaching services for marriage, personal, and business concerns in Iowa.

✨ WE’RE HIRING: Trauma-Focused Therapists!At Moore Life Counseling, our mission is rooted in a simple, powerful truth: “...
07/21/2026

✨ WE’RE HIRING: Trauma-Focused Therapists!

At Moore Life Counseling, our mission is rooted in a simple, powerful truth: “It is for freedom.” 🌿

We are expanding our creative, relational, and highly collaborative team! We’re looking for outside-the-box clinicians who are passionate about group work, non-siloed care, and helping motivated clients do the deeper work to reclaim their lives.

We currently have two distinct tracks open:

1️⃣ EMDR & Ketamine-Assisted Specialist
Focus: Deep trauma processing using EMDR and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.

Groups: Facilitates processing, therapy, and experiential groups.

Ideal for: Therapists trained in (or passionate about learning) advanced trauma modalities and cutting-edge medicine-assisted work.

2️⃣ DBT, Skills, & Resourcing Specialist
Focus: Utilizing DBT dynamically as an EMDR resourcing tool to prepare clients for deeper trauma processing.

Groups: Facilitates skills training, processing, and creative experiential groups.

Ideal for: Therapists who love the structure of DBT and want to apply it relationally and innovatively.

Why Join Us?
Collaborative Culture: No isolation. We consult, grow, and create together.

Motivated Clients: Work with people ready for real, transformative healing.

Growth: Get supported in advanced trauma trainings and specialty care.

✨ Because there’s more to life.

👉 Ready to build something impactful? Visit https://www.moorelifecc.com/careers to learn more and apply!

🎉 WELCOME TO THE SPACE! 🎉I am absolutely thrilled to share some wonderful news! Please join me in giving a warm welcome ...
06/16/2026

🎉 WELCOME TO THE SPACE! 🎉

I am absolutely thrilled to share some wonderful news! Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Kimberly Ingram, LMHC, who is joining the shared practice space here at Moore Life Counseling!

Bringing another skilled, compassionate mental health professional into the space means more resources and more healing for our community. Kimberly's therapeutic approach is grounded in warmth, safety, and empowerment, and I couldn't be happier to share this environment with her.

✨ The best news? She is currently accepting new clients! ✨

Kimberly supports older teens, young adults, and adults navigating:

Anxiety & depression

Trauma healing

Relationship challenges

Emotional regulation & setting healthy boundaries

Her work is grounded in attachment and systems perspectives, and she integrates evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, ACT, and EMDR-informed techniques to help clients build a more connected and grounded life.

If you or a loved one are looking for a dedicated counselor who will help you understand yourself deeply and make meaningful change, I highly encourage you to check out her full bio and connect with her:

👉 https://www.moorelifecc.com/kimberly-ingram

Welcome to the space, Kimberly! We are so incredibly glad to have you here. 💛

At Moore Life Counseling, we walk alongside others in their deepest valleys. Today, we are walking through our own. Two ...
05/17/2026

At Moore Life Counseling, we walk alongside others in their deepest valleys. Today, we are walking through our own. Two weeks ago, we lost our beautiful daughter, Samantha. This is what the fog of grief looks like for us right now...

Through the Motions, Into the Silence

Samantha’s funeral was Wednesday. We woke up in a fog, methodically dressed in funeral attire, and dragged our feet to the car. I’m not sure how we made it to the church, but somehow the car found the way.

The service was beautiful, poignant, filled with memories of Sam, and focused on honoring her authentic faith in God. They tell me the place was filled with mourners. Bryon and I went through the motions and barely recall the details.

I couldn’t get out of the car when we got home. Bryon backed into the garage, parked, turned the engine off, and we just sat there, not saying a single word. Silence. A tear rolled down my cheek. Then another. I simply could not make myself move. Grief overwhelmed me in a way I had not let myself feel while I had to hold it all together these past few days. My shoulders shook with quiet sobs. My stomach clenched.

We were supposed to be at a Phil Wickham concert with Natalie and Samantha this evening. The short trip to Minneapolis and overnight stay had been planned for months. Those 4 concert seats sat empty that night. Samantha loved Phil’s music. Just a couple of weeks ago, she, Bryon, and I had been swapping songs on Spotify, our excitement for the event building. Instead, Phil’s songs played memorial to Sam at her funeral service. Tragic. More hot tears soundlessly stained my cheeks.

An image from the graveside service assaulted my memory. William, our 9 year old grandson, had drawn on the vault a picture of a smiling face, a waving hand, with the message “bye. William”. His somber expression, saying goodbye in the way he knows best made my heart twist.

Finally, I moved from the car only when I remembered that the flowers needed to be taken into the house. Movement was good. Emptying the car provided a respite, momentary feeling of purpose.

We went for a walk. Yes, movement is good, helps us feel not so stuck.

Then we stayed up too late…what are we supposed to do with tomorrow???

The next morning, we woke with eyes swollen from crying and gritty from dehydration. And somehow we made it through the day after the funeral.

Today marks two weeks since our lives were changed forever when our daughter died. This afternoon, we remember.

We love you, Sam.

Lamentations 3:22-23: "Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

Last night was the visitation for Samantha.Walking into the church, I (Cheryl) felt faint. My head spun. I took a breath...
05/13/2026

Last night was the visitation for Samantha.

Walking into the church, I (Cheryl) felt faint. My head spun. I took a breath that caught in my throat. Then a part of myself seemed to detach and hover while another part stepped forward to manage the afternoon and evening with composure.

My head hurt.

I was obsessed with finding the right space for the “Abide” painting my friend made in remembrance of Samantha. It seemed the only small thing I might have some control over.

The casket was closed. The body that the funeral home worked so hard to prepare simply did not hold Samantha anymore and it could not capture her vibrant spirit. The most honorable thing to do was to close the casket and focus on her candid pictures in the slideshow and the beautiful posed senior photo that adorned her casket.

Casket… And Samantha… These two words should never go together.

The line of people seemed to be never ending. The composed part of me stayed in charge as Bryon and I pasted on smiles and welcomed the condolences of the multitude that was there to support to us all. In return, we offered condolences to her family, her friends, her classmates, and the children that she worked with in the after school program.

A little blonde girl approached us with a drawing that she made of her and Samantha, telling us the story of how Samantha was her teacher and taught her “waterfall breathing” to help her calm down when she was feeling upset.

Her professor from DMACC approached with tears in his eyes and presented to Bryon the final paper that he had graded for Samantha, a red “A” noted on the front page along with the date of April 28, just a few days before she died.

My feet hurt from standing in heels and an inner critical voice at the back of my head wondered why did I wear a coral jumpsuit? No one else was wearing something so bright. Imposter syndrome continued with thoughts of “I’m only the stepmom”. An ache in the pit of my belly.

I looked at Bryon. His demeanor, so welcoming and receptive with an unfamiliar deep sadness in his eyes and his posture, my wonderful husband, such a loving, protective and warm father.

I heard him honoring Samantha’s mother, Maggie, to the mourners, recognizing her as having been the best mom possible to Sam … and meaning it. I looked across the room at Maggie, through the sea of people, and knew it was true. My heart ached for her.

Finally, after the line had trickled, driving home, we wondered how we did it. We quietly ate burgers at home with family that our son and daughter-in-law grabbed at a drive thru, then acknowledged the need to go to bed. Exhausted, we slept with the help of medicine and a prayerful meditation.

Now, it is funeral day.

Psalm 29:11 the Lord will give strength to his people, the Lord his blesses people with peace.

Thoughts on GriefAt Moore Life Counseling we believe in the power of practicing what we preach. This weekend, the owners...
05/11/2026

Thoughts on Grief

At Moore Life Counseling we believe in the power of practicing what we preach. This weekend, the owners, Bryon and Cheryl, had to put our own clinical tools to the test while navigating a profound personal loss after our youngest, Bryon’s 19 year old daughter, died as a result of a car accident. We share this in hopes it helps anyone else currently walking through the 'quiet' after a storm.

Yesterday the kids all went back to their respective homes. The grandkids left and the house was quiet for the first time in a week.

Bryon and I looked at one another with the haunted, blank looks of having gone through the worst week imaginable. The temptation was to retire to the dark basement family room and binge watch mindless television.

I asked, are we exhausted or depressed? Both, it turns out. We paused a moment and took a breath. As owners of a mental health counseling practice, we decided to practice what we preach. We felt the feelings and used the coping skill “opposite action” for depression—essentially making ourselves do the opposite of isolating and avoiding our pain to instead build some positive energy and emotion to increase resilience and manage emotions purposefully.

We put air into the tires on our bikes, changed our clothes, filled our water bottles then took our bodies weakened from grief to the fresh air and sunshine.
As the wind wizzed by while tires sang on the pavement, our muscles woke up, and our breath came a little easier. We came upon a grove of purple spring flowers and grief swelled again. Sam would’ve loved these flowers. I could almost hear her sing-songy voice ringing “they’re so pretty!” and imagine her picking a bouquet. She probably would have given a bunch to me and another to her Mom. She would have loved this beautiful spring day.

Later, after a much needed shower, we decided to have lunch at Laughing Crab. We spent this time remembering how much she enjoyed cracking crab legs with us and devouring the succulent lobster, shrimp, potatoes, and corn, her face and hands a buttery mess, her contagious laugh, and guttural expressions of “yummy”. Yes, we cried. And we rejoiced that we have these memories of her.

This week we enter into more times of remembrance with navigating visitation, funeral services, burial, and so much more that we don’t even know is to come yet.

This one thing we know, “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.””
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭91‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭NIV‬‬

🌟 Spotlight on Theresa 🌟We’re so grateful to have Theresa as part of the Moore Life Counseling team. Theresa works with ...
02/03/2026

🌟 Spotlight on Theresa 🌟

We’re so grateful to have Theresa as part of the Moore Life Counseling team. Theresa works with adults navigating mental health challenges, substance use, trauma, and life experiences that can feel heavy or overwhelming.

She believes her clients are the experts on their own lives and approaches therapy as a collaborative, judgment-free space. Theresa meets people exactly where they are and uses practical, evidence-based tools—along with a harm-reduction lens—to support meaningful, sustainable change.

Theresa has experience working with trauma, substance use, serious mental illness, legal involvement, caregiver burnout, aging concerns, and LGBTQ+ issues. Her work is grounded, compassionate, and real.

Outside of the therapy room, Theresa lives in rural Iowa with her husband, four kids, and a full house of pets. She enjoys quilting, photography, baking, and soaking up summer days by the pool.

✨ Theresa is currently accepting new clients.
If you’re interested in working with her, reach out to Moore Life Counseling to get started.

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This morning, Sherilyn and I were honored to hold space for six clients during our group KAP session as they experienced...
01/10/2026

This morning, Sherilyn and I were honored to hold space for six clients during our group KAP session as they experienced renewed hope, healing, and meaningful insight—taking steps toward greater freedom.

Whether it was a first step or part of an ongoing journey, each experience was welcomed and held with care.

Because there’s more to life. ✨

As we prepare for tomorrow morning’s KAP group, we’re holding deep intention around creating a grounded and nurturing sp...
01/10/2026

As we prepare for tomorrow morning’s KAP group, we’re holding deep intention around creating a grounded and nurturing space.
Our professionals aim to support clients in exploring their inner experiences with care, curiosity, and respect—using the medicine as a supportive tool along the way.

Moore Life Counseling — because there’s more to life.





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4090 Westown Parkway, Suite E
West Des Moines, IA
50266

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