Matthew Morse, LMHC

I was born in 1962 and grew up in suburban St. Louis, MO (ages 1-13) and Tacoma, WA (ages 13-18). I spent a lot of my teenage years cycling on the open roads of Washington State. As an undergraduate, I studied the philosophy and some Ancient Greek at St. John's college in Annapolis, MD. From 1986-87, I studied poetry under Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Philip Whalen, Clark Coolidge and the disembodied spirits of Jack Kerouac and Ted Berrigan at Naropa University. I love the arts, and consider myself an accomplished amateur poet. In 1987, I travelled to Nepal and India to study and practice Vajrayana Buddhism (Nyingmapa). My main teachers have been Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. Since 1988, I've been engaged in Tibetan Buddhist psychology and the practices of the body, speech and mind...so these deeply inform my therapeutic view. But, I'm also partial to Psychodynamic exploration, Existential psychology and even CBT. I've lived in NYC since 1994, and I worked in the magazine and luxury goods industry for about 20 years. I've been married for 27 years and have two adult daughters. In 2015-16, I trained as an Interfaith chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital and then I worked for nearly six years in end-of-life care at Calvary Home Hospice. In 2016, I volunteered as a test subject for a research study at Johns Hopkins University on the effect(s) of psilocybin on long-term meditators. I picked up an MA degree and a license to practice psychotherapy (LMHC) along the way...and here I am!