Dr. Bret A. Moore is a board-certified clinical psychologist, prescribing psychologist, and accomplished author with more than two decades of leadership and clinical experience across military, federal, academic, and nonprofit settings. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth in Bluemont, Virginia, where he has been one of the developers of programs based on posttraumatic growth principles to help veterans and first responders. He previously served as Deputy and Interim Director of the U.S. Army’s largest tele-behavioral health hub, which supported 16 medical facilities across 13 states. He also held the positions of Chief of Clinical Research, Director of a trauma psychology postdoctoral fellowship, and Director of multiple military behavioral health clinics.
A U.S. Army veteran and Bronze Star Medal recipient, Dr. Moore served as a psychologist and officer in the 85th Combat Stress Control Detachment (Fort Hood), deploying twice to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While deployed, he led combat stress prevention and behavioral health operations, directed multiple outpatient clinics, and supervised teams of officers and enlisted personnel providing care to service members in challenging environments.
In addition to his federal and military service, Dr. Moore has maintained a thriving private practice for more than 20 years. His practice includes conducting pre-employment psychological evaluations for law enforcement and security personnel, fitness-for-duty assessments, and independent medical examinations. He also provides psychotherapy to adults coping with a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and trauma-related difficulties, including those navigating grief, loss, and major life transitions.
Dr. Moore is a recognized expert in clinical psychopharmacology, with nearly two decades of experience providing integrated psychological and medication management services within the U.S. Army and the Indian Health Service. His work has helped shape the practice and policy landscape for prescribing psychologists across federal systems. In addition to developing and advancing local hospital and enterprise-level policies on clinical privileging guidelines in psychopharmacology, Dr. Moore has supervised psychologists in prescriptive authority training and co-chaired the 2025 update of the APA Division 55 Practice Guidelines on Psychologists’ Involvement in Pharmacological Issues.
In addition to his clinical, leadership, and research experience, Dr. Moore has held faculty and teaching positions at multiple institutions, including the University of Missouri, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Fairleigh Dickinson University, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, Adler University, and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He has developed and taught courses in military psychology, posttraumatic growth, clinical psychopharmacology, and pathophysiology.
As a scholar and author, Dr. Moore has published 25 books, over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and hundreds of popular press articles on topics spanning posttraumatic growth, psychopharmacology, posttraumatic stress disorder, and military mental health. His works include Transformed by Trauma, The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook, Treating PTSD in Military Personnel, Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists, Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple, and Posttraumatic Growth: Theory, Research, and Applications-Second Edition.
Dr. Moore is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in three divisions—Public Service Psychology (Div. 18), Military Psychology (Div. 19), and Society for Prescribing Psychology (Div. 55)—and has received numerous national awards, including the Charles S. Gersoni Military Psychology Award, the Peter J. N. Linnerooth National Service Award, and Educator of the Year from APA Division 55.
Dr. Moore earned his doctorate in clinical psychology, with a specialization in clinical neuropsychology, from Adler University in Chicago, IL; his M.S. in clinical psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University; his M.A. in counseling psychology from Western Michigan University; and his B.S. in social and rehabilitation services from the University of Southern Mississippi.
