Roger Moore

Roger moore

I have been connected with people for as long as I can remember. In grade school I frequently visited a senior center, in junior high I helped out with young children, in high school I volunteered at a drug crisis hot-line. I went to college in Minnesota and on weekends taught photography at an inner-city youth center. My BA is in Criminal Justice Studies. While in college I was a weekend live-in houseparent with “pre-delinquent” teenagers and then with 12 children with developmental disabilities. After college I became a full-time live in house parent with these children and worked my way through the organization and became it’s president. For 13 years I led an organization that created 6 person residential programs for children and adults with developmental disabilities, 1 and 2 person apartment programs, and started an adult day program. Many of our clients had severe behavioral problems.

Every chance I had, I took advantage of learning opportunities. I studied drug and alcohol counseling with the Vern Johnson Institute and St. Mary’s Hospital. I attended workshops with Virginia Satir and Muriel James. I studied Transactional Analysis and attended the Alfred Adler Institute of Minnesota. Through  St. Mary’s College I took graduate courses in Human and Health Services Administration. I have attended numerous conferences, workshops and seminars.

When I left Minnesota and moved to Maui I became the Executive Director for a preschool of children who were physically and emotionally abused and I became the Executive Director of the ARC of Maui.

Throughout all those years I counseled clients, parents and staff. As I wrestled with the issue of what I was going to do when I grew up (actually, I view it as what am I going to do next) only one thing ever really stood out – counseling. I found an excellent Masters program in counseling in California and so we moved to California so that I could attend school. During those years, I became the Vice President of Lutheran Social Services of Southern California where I directed all the services for Orange and San Diego counties and created the counseling for the entire organization.  I was also able to compete my counseling internship for my Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy. During this time I also became certified in Clinical Hypnosis.

As some of our children and all of our grand-children began migrating to Puget Sound, we made the decision to move to Bainbridge Island after grad school. I continued my studies in counseling and hypnotherapy and completed by PhD in Clinical Hypnosis. Since January 1997 I have been in private practice with offices on Bainbridge Island and in the Medical Dental Building in downtown Seattle.

In addition to counseling, I am the director of  Slender For Life™ and Roger Moore’s Institute of Hypnotherapy and the creator of Hypnosis Health Info. I teach weight loss and hypnosis classes at conferences in California, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, Daytona Beach and on-line with HypnoSummit sponsored by HypnoThoughts.

I have devoted most of my life to helping people. Borrowing from an old axiom, give a person a fish, they will eat today. Teach them to fish and they will eat for a life time. I have always tried to teach skills for empowerment. I never wanted to just do for someone, I wanted to empower them in taking the next steps in their life. Are you ready to take the next step in your life? If so, call me.