Welcome to Healing Pineapple Therapy, PLLC

Compassionate, specialized support from a therapist who understands that life doesn’t always follow the path we imagined.

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Hello, and welcome to Healing Pineapple Therapy. I’m Katie Moore, LCSW, PMH-C, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional with nearly 20 years of clinical experience supporting individuals and families through grief, trauma, major life transitions, family building, and changes in emotional well-being.

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I believe therapy works best when you feel genuinely understood—not judged, rushed, or reduced to a diagnosis. My approach is warm, collaborative, and practical. Together, we can make sense of what you’re experiencing, build tools that work in your everyday life, and help you reconnect with your strengths and sense of self.

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Nearly Two Decades of Clinical Experience

 

I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Quinnipiac University in 2005 and my Master of Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2007. Shortly afterward, I relocated from New Jersey to the Charlotte area and began my career as a therapist.

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My early clinical work focused on older adults and their families, giving me extensive experience with grief and loss, trauma, caregiving, medical and health-related stress, changing family roles, and major life transitions. This work also deepened my interest in the mind-body connection and in helping people understand how emotional experiences can affect many different areas of their lives.

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In 2009, I co-created Serendipity Therapy, PLLC to help meet the mental health needs of older adults and their families. I later had the opportunity to work as an Infant Mental Health Specialist, providing therapeutic parenting support and helping families strengthen relationships during the earliest stages of a child's life.

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Throughout my career, one theme has remained constant: I am drawn to helping people navigate the moments when life changes—and when the life they expected suddenly looks very different.

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Why Perinatal & Reproductive Mental Health Became Personal

 

In 2015, that understanding took on a deeply personal meaning when I began my own journey toward becoming a parent.

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Over the next five years, I experienced infertility and pregnancy loss, followed by birth trauma and postpartum depression and anxiety. Going through these experiences changed me personally, but they also shaped the direction of my professional work.

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I recognized how isolating infertility, reproductive loss, and perinatal mental health challenges can feel—and how important it is to have support from someone who understands the complexity of these experiences.

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Beginning in 2020, I pursued advanced education, training, and certification in perinatal and reproductive mental health, ultimately earning my PMH-C (Perinatal Mental Health Certification). Today, this specialized training, combined with nearly two decades of clinical experience, allows me to support women through infertility and family building, pregnancy loss and reproductive grief, pregnancy and postpartum mental health, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), birth trauma, and the transition into parenthood.

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My personal experiences inform the compassion I bring to this work, but I also recognize that your story is not my story. There is no single way to experience infertility, loss, pregnancy, motherhood, trauma, or healing. Therapy is about understanding your experience and discovering what you need to move forward.

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Supporting Women Through Changing Seasons

 

As Healing Pineapple has grown, so has my work with women beyond the reproductive years. My background in grief, trauma, health psychology, identity, family relationships, and life transitions provides a natural foundation for supporting women experiencing the emotional and psychological changes that can accompany perimenopause and menopause.

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Whether you are trying to build your family, grieving a loss, struggling during pregnancy or postpartum, adjusting to motherhood, navigating a life without the children you expected, or entering a new stage of womanhood, you deserve support that recognizes the whole person—not simply the challenge that brought you to therapy.

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Finding Your Way Forward

 

My goal isn't to tell you how you should feel or where your journey should take you. It is to walk alongside you as you better understand what you're experiencing, reconnect with your strengths, develop healthier ways of coping, and create meaningful change in your life and relationships.

Sometimes healing means moving forward. Sometimes it means adjusting to a path you never expected. And sometimes it simply begins with having a place where you don't have to carry everything by yourself.

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If you're ready to see whether we might be a good fit, I invite you to schedule a consultation.