Dr. Laurie Moore‘s path from performing arts to holistic healing embodies her dedication to guiding individuals towards personal transformation. With a diverse range of therapeutic modalities including counseling, hypnotherapy, and animal communication, she fosters self-awareness and resilience, empowering clients to live authentically and joyfully. Learn more in her exclusive MysticMag interview below.
What motivated you to start doing the work you’re doing now and what were your professional beginnings like?
I’ve always followed my heart and soul. It all began with my involvement in performing arts, where I organized local community events, choreographed, wrote plays, and composed music for both adults and children. This ignited an endless fascination and curiosity within me about the human capacity to evolve, change, manifest, grow, and release self-defeating habits.
Driven by this passion, I decided to pursue further education and enrolled in Graduate School to become an expressive art therapist. This journey eventually led me to writing books and articles, another passion of mine, and even appearing on TV shows. One unexpected opportunity arose from an interview in Hawaii during a series of awakenings I was experiencing because my cat had reincarnated. This interview evolved into me teaching seminars in Hawaii to people from around the world for many years.
Throughout this journey, I simply took one step at a time. While I was occasionally approached by business people suggesting strategies to improve my business, I found that following my heart and soul led to the most beautiful outcomes. I feel incredibly blessed to have worked with highly intelligent and interesting individuals from all over the world.
At times, I experimented with following business models, only to find that everything fell apart. In those moments, I learned to trust in the guidance of the Divine, allowing it to show me the next step forward.
What ideas and principles do you base your coaching on?
The idea behind my work is that humans are inherently good and that each human is their own planet. Each human represents a unique and wonderful set of attributes, characteristics, and challenges he or she came to Earth learning school with to contribute, refine, and develop. However, everyone needs a helping hand in this aspect.
Can you walk me through an animal communication session?
People seek animal communication sessions because they desire insight into their animal’s world. However, at the same time, I also listen deeply from my heart and soul to the hearts and souls of humans. I connect with the essence of the souls residing in animal bodies. Just like humans, animals experience a range of complex emotions, hold unique viewpoints, and have reasons for their incarnation and purposes in life. They possess a remarkable capacity to be non-judgmental, both towards themselves and others, readily sharing their virtues and weaknesses without self-judgment.
During these sessions, people often inquire about their animals’ behaviors. For instance, one person reached out because their usually disciplined cat started peeing on the couch, despite usually being disciplined with the litter box. Through communication with the cat, it became apparent that the person had undergone a period of chaos, straying from their usual emotionally calm and mentally organized state, which included regular meditation. The cat expressed attempting various gentle methods to regain the person’s attention before resorting to this behavior. Understanding the message, the person returned to their meditation practice, restored inner calmness, and released chaotic thoughts. Remarkably, upon this change, the cat stopped peeing on the couch.
How can you help a person through LMFT counseling with hypnotherapy and what other therapy services do you offer?
Hypnotherapy is just one of the modalities I utilize in my practice. Depending on the individual’s needs, personality, preferences, and goals, I may incorporate various therapeutic approaches such as hypnotherapy, EMDR, internal family systems, expressive arts therapies (including art, drama, music, dance, and writing therapy), cognitive behavioral therapy, or Rogerian therapy. However, I never impose any particular method on anyone; rather, we discuss together what approach will best resonate with the individual during our sessions.
My ultimate goal in therapy is always to facilitate the release of patterns that no longer serve the emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental well-being of the individual. Instead, we work to open up to new, divine patterns that promote wellness, prosperity, love, community, kindness, and fulfilling relationships. It’s important to recognize that therapists, like everyone else, are continually engaged in their own personal growth and healing journey. We are human and face our own challenges, which we actively work to overcome.
In therapy sessions, I’ve witnessed profound transformations occur. For example, a woman struggling with an eating disorder found relief in just one session as we addressed layers of blocked emotions she had been afraid to confront – grief, loneliness, and sorrow. By giving herself permission to feel and embracing the somatic experience, she regained peace, and her nonproductive eating behavior vanished.
However, it’s essential to acknowledge that everyone’s healing journey is unique. While some challenges may resolve quickly, others may require years of exploration and various therapeutic interventions. Each individual’s path to healing is a work of art – a masterpiece crafted over a lifetime. Whether through hypnotherapy, EMDR, or any other modality, my role remains consistent: to facilitate the transformation of unhelpful patterns and guide individuals toward deeper peace.
What can people expect from your Satsang Seminars?
We had a huge company with many volunteers and paid staff, and we took the Satsang Seminars all over the United States, including Hawaii, and eventually to other countries like Spain, Portugal, Taiwan, and Mexico. The experience was wonderful. Those were truly remarkable years, marked by many profound healings.
For example, I remember a seminar where a woman raised her hand and she said “My back just went out, and when that happens, it takes 9 months to recover”. I asked her to give us a chance to help her. She agreed and her back went back in. I am not a chiropractor. We did not touch her physically, but we had a major emotional, physical, and mental healing, in that case, and many other situations.
However, times have changed. I had been working on my own before the seminars and this is now again the case, after the seminars. I choose to live a very quiet and simple life at this time. People come to do one-on-ones with me on a weekly or monthly basis, or even twice a week, as well as to do intensive work. I mostly work via the phone or video now, but people can also come and schedule with me to do intensives. It’s somewhere around 10 hours of work over 3 days. It’s specifically made for each person and we select out of my 14 different intensives, about which people can read online. It can involve everything from animal communication or personal manifestation to spiritual entrepreneurialism or inner joy and fulfillment, spiritual awakening, or talking to the angels.
There are many different approaches and services that I offer. However, some people just come to change an addiction or a self-defeating habit. Whatever your goal is, we discuss it in depth and we decide on the modalities that will be used for those 10 in-depth hours. In other words, I do one-on-one intensives now and the Satsang Seminars as a project are behind me, though I do use many things from that work in my current work. One of the reasons for this change is that I’m currently very busy working on my music, songwriting for my senior years, and my art.
Can you share some memorable success stories?
There are a lot of profound stories I have witnessed firsthand in my career. It’s hard to choose just a few. One that stands out involved a couple who were at odds. We helped them understand each other’s perspectives and how it was to live in the other person’s shoes, and very quickly they rediscovered a sense of connection they hadn’t felt since their honeymoon.
Another memorable one involved a client puzzled by his dog constantly running off. Through animal communication, we discovered that the dog was reflecting the client’s own unresolved emotional issues. The client bravely confronted his inner struggles, leading to a positive shift in the dog’s behavior.
There are also long-term situations where individuals worked diligently to overcome mental and emotional challenges, achieving lasting transformation. Then there are those seeking a miracle – a client who came to manifest abundance experienced a rapid turnaround, including unexpected financial gains and money coming from everywhere, even finding money forgotten somewhere in their house.
These stories, along with many others, are featured on my website’s testimonials. Lastly, before we wrap up, I want to add that I’m here and available to help others on their journey toward healing and growth.
To learn more about Laurie and her work, you can visit www.animiracles.com, www.DrLaurieMoore.com, and www.counselingscottsvalley.us
