Dr. Mo Deslandes (they/them) focuses their practice on sitting with clients and understanding the client’s truth and perspective, using sessions to help explore clients’ inner selves through processing and being allowed a positive space to best understand a client’s needs. By creating a positive space which feels comfortable, Mo works with clients to find what is most helpful and rewarding in sessions and allows the clients to guide their therapy journey in a manner that fits the client best.

Mo completed their PsyD at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology and has worked in a variety of areas, including inpatient and outpatient hospitals, outpatient eating disorder behavioral housing, and populations with significant trauma. They have been the lead therapist on an acute inpatient unit, as well as teaching multiple classes across a variety of topics.

Their areas of clinical specialty and interest include but are not limited to: PTSD and trauma, borderline personality disorder, dissociative disorders including OSDD and DID, suicidality, self injury and harm reduction, emerging adults and concerns, severe mental illness, as well as kink, and ethically non-monogamous relationships, LGBTQIA+

“You’re going to fight and you’re going to win.”
- Johann, The Adventure Zone

Dr. Mo Deslandes

Founder, Doctor of Psychology

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Our story all began with a belief. We wanted to create a safe space, and resilient community to help deliver something more to our clients.