Dr John Moore

You have the ability to create calm, heal your wounds, and live a life of significance and worth. Your personal power lies within.

Through a collaborative, evidence-based clinical approach, Dr. Moore. helps individuals navigate complex emotional hurdles, find lasting life balance, and achieve meaningful personal evolution. He operates with the core philosophy that counseling creates a profound space for genuine personal insight—insight that can be actively transformed into authentic understanding, deep healing, and a life lived with greater clarity and daily purpose.

Areas of Clinical Specialty

In his practice at 2nd Story Counseling, Dr. Moore offers highly specialized clinical interventions tailored to adults, professionals, and young adults seeking to overcome deep-seated somatic and psychological barriers. His core areas of expertise include:

• Trauma-Informed Modalities & Somatic Healing: Advanced, specialized interventions utilizing EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) alongside certified Clinical Hypnotherapy to safely process root trauma, eliminate phobias, and quiet severe PTSD responses.
• Career Development & Workplace Stress: Specialized executive coaching and career counseling to help young professionals overcome workplace burnout, imposter syndrome, high-stakes career transitions, and performance-based anxiety.
• Mood & Anxiety Regulation: Comprehensive evidence-based care for persistent depression, complex anxiety & phobias, acute panic, and the development of everyday coping skills and stress management techniques.
• Identity & Men’s Issues: Focused support exploring modern masculinity, male-specific mental health dynamics, societal expectations, and providing an inclusive, affirming environment for LGBTQ+ & queer-identifying adults.
• Transitions, Grief & Loss: Providing a steady, structured space for college students & young adults to navigate major life alterations, identity shifts, addictions, substance use recovery, and complex grief and loss.
• Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Integrating evidence-based mindfulness techniques to foster somatic grounding, emotional regulation, and deep cognitive clarity.

Dr. John Moore is a highly experienced licensed psychotherapist, professor, executive coach, and business professional who holds advanced training across psychology, clinical counseling, and strategic organizational leadership. Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Moore spent more than 15 years in complex managerial and marketing leadership roles within Fortune 500 companies and major nonprofit healthcare systems, including IBM, Verizon, and AMITA Health. This unique, multi-layered combination of clinical mastery and real-world executive experience allows him to help clients navigate both intricate personal psychological struggles and high-stakes professional challenges with deep strategic insight, practical logic, and profound compassion.

His clinical framework dynamically integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based interventions, and certified clinical hypnotherapy. When clinically appropriate, he seamlessly incorporates forward-facing coaching strategies to help clients clarify personal benchmarks, dismantle self-limiting psychological blocks, and create meaningful, lasting life adjustments. Dr. Moore specializes heavily in men’s issues, severe anxiety, complex trauma, relational dynamics, executive career stress, workplace navigation, and major life transitions. He has extensive experience partnering with corporate professionals, healthcare workers, college students, military veterans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Beyond his individual clinical work, Dr. Moore has provided critical crisis management consultation in highly sensitive, mission-critical environments, including executing onsite support for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Boeing. His professional insights and psychological expertise have been featured prominently across major media networks, including NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, ABC 7, MarketWatch, and Men’s Health. In tandem with his practice at 2nd Story Counseling, he serves as a university professor teaching graduate-level business psychology courses, dedicating decades to helping individuals master self-understanding, reinforce systemic resilience, and build deeply fulfilling lives.

Advanced Background, Doctoral Education & Credentials

Dr. Moore holds an exceptionally distinguished academic and professional record. He earned his PhD in Psychology from Northcentral University, an MBA from Indiana Tech, and a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of the Cumberlands. He is fully licensed as a psychotherapist in the state of Illinois and maintains highly specialized board certifications as an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), a Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Counselor (CADC), and a certified clinical hypnotherapist. This unmatched array of doctoral-level training makes him a cornerstone of specialized, evidence-based adult care in the Chicago market.