Shantanique "Shay" Moore King, LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Florida, New Jersey & Washington, DC
I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) with licensure in Florida, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. My work is grounded in trauma-informed, attachment-based, and relational practice, with a focus on inner child healing, emotional safety, and intentional relationship work.
I specialize in supporting high-achieving women and couples navigating trauma, identity shifts, relational patterns, and emotional burnout. I also integrate structured assessment and feedback through Prepare & Enrich in my couples work.
My clinical approach prioritizes presence, pacing, and depth. Healing here is not rushed or protocol-driven, it is relational, collaborative, and responsive to your lived experience.
Why I do this work.
For a long time, I believed private practice would make care inaccessible to the people who needed it most. I'm a trauma specialist, and I wanted to help, but after working across every level of outpatient and residential care, I learned something specific: I want to help a specific population. I want to help women like me. Women who suffer from never feeling like they're not enough, from never finding someone to hold them, from always being the strong friend because softness felt like a weakness, and advocating for themselves felt like a punishment.
I was tired of working outside of my purpose. That is why I started this private practice. I want to help women rebuild their lives, show them they were always capable of more, and help them move their trauma out of the passenger seat. You are allowed to rest, to soften, to be loved, to be gentle, to be held like never before.
They aren't broken.
They say they want to be fixed, but what they really want is to rebuild self-trust. They think the problem is their ability to fit in, but the real challenge is feeling misunderstood, which leads to feeling isolated.
What I stand for:
- ✦ Every client is the expert of their own life. I'm in the passenger seat, slowing them down to notice the patterns they drive past that shape their current story.
- ✦ I'm not a blank therapist. I'm animated, calming, direct, gentle, and reassuring.
- ✦ Healing is relational. People are needed during the journey to wholeness.
Clients don't hire me for venting with no solutions. They hire me to understand, process, and dismantle the patterns, stories, and beliefs that have taken hold of their nervous system.
The real reason people stay with me is that they feel heard and seen for the first time. They don't have to perform for my approval, they can just be, without judgment. It feels like speaking to a girlfriend on the couch, a space to be unfiltered.
My work isn't for everyone, and that's okay, because I'm not meant to be everyone's therapist, only some. The ones ready to reclaim their lives, who understand that healing isn't always pretty. They come to realize that healing isn't only one loud breakthrough. Greatness also happens in the quiet shifts.
Training & Credentials
I will not ask you to perform here. I will catch you until you can catch yourself.
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