Ray Moran LPC & Scott Ferris LPC

Ray Moran LPC Ray Moran is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with extensive experience in helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges and achieve personal growth. With a diverse range of certifications, Ray specializes in both mental health counseling and performance coaching, allowing him to serve a wide array of clients, from those experiencing trauma to athletes seeking peak performance. Ray holds certifications in: Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS): Expertise in assessing and managing clients at risk of suicide, focusing on collaborative strategies to ensure safety and recovery. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): A therapeutic approach designed to help children and adults overcome trauma, providing them with effective coping mechanisms and healing strategies. Circle of Security Parenting: Guidance for parents to enhance secure attachment with their children, fostering healthy emotional development and resilience. Prepare/Enrich Marriage Counseling: Specializing in premarital and marital counseling, Ray helps couples strengthen their relationship through evidence-based tools and techniques. Sports Psychology: Ray integrates mental conditioning strategies to help athletes build mental toughness, improve focus, and enhance overall performance. With a compassionate and goal-oriented approach, Ray Moran is dedicated to empowering his clients to achieve success in every area of their lives. Whether working with individuals on mental health challenges, couples on relationship dynamics, or athletes on performance goals, Ray brings expertise, understanding, and a commitment to positive outcomes. Scott Ferris MA, LPC, NPT-C, NCC Scott Ferris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), 3rd-degree black belt Karate Instructor, and U.S. Army veteran with 7 years of active-duty service. His background in the military, combined with his expertise in mental health, gives him a unique perspective on resilience, trauma, and personal growth. with a unique approach to therapy that blends martial arts with psychological techniques. As the creator of Somatic Modeled Martial Arts Restructuring Therapy (SMMART), Scott integrates movement, mindfulness, and martial arts principles to help clients process emotions and trauma through the body, offering a holistic path to mental well-being. Scott holds certifications in: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR): A specialized therapy for helping clients recover from trauma by reprocessing distressing memories and reducing their emotional impact. Neuropsychotherapy: A brain-based approach that connects neuroscience with psychotherapy to help clients understand and change their behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): A therapeutic technique aimed at helping children and adults cope with and heal from trauma through cognitive and behavioral strategies. Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS): An approach focused on collaboratively working with clients to assess and manage suicidal ideation in a structured, compassionate way. With a deep passion for mental health and physical wellness, Scott’s diverse skill set allows him to assist clients in transforming their minds and bodies. His background in martial arts and his innovative SMMART method offer a dynamic and somatic-based approach to healing, benefiting individuals who seek to improve their mental and emotional well-being through physical movement and structured therapeutic interventions.