Dr. Patrick Moran, Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical & School Psychologist in Oregon and Washington with almost four decades of experience working in clinical practice. Dr. Moran has extensive experience with children and adults, providing individual, group, and couples therapy, and psychological, developmental, and educational evaluation.

Dr. Moran has enjoyed a multi-dimensional career providing community-based mental health treatment and substance abuse prevention and treatment.  He was the Program Director for the largest outpatient adolescent treatment program in Oregon before becoming a school psychologist serving his local, remote commuity.  He has implemented multiple federal, state, and county based best practice models for treatment of youth and adults, and manages his own private practices in Lake Oswego, OR, SW Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA. Prior to practicing in the Pacific NW, he worked at Stanford Department of Adult Psychiatry and engaged in research on the group therapy treatment of social anxiety/social phobia.  He also worked at the Long Beach VA Medical Center in alcohol addiction research, and at the Menlo Park VA engaged in the Family Research Study to assess family factors that contribute to addiction behaviors. Dr. Moran has 18 years of cross-cultural experience working with the Native-American community as a treatment provider, trainer, grant writer, and Behavioral Health Director for a large Urban Indian Clinic serving the Pacific Northwest.  He has also been a grant reviewer for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) for community-based service delivery grants.

Dr. Moran has served on the Board of Directors for both the Oregon School Psychology Association, and the Oregon Psychological Association. He has held adjunct appointments at Concordia University, and Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Moran was a contributing consultant to the California Department of Education Response to Intervention (RTI) Implementation Task Force, the California Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) Advisory Committee linking IEP goals to the Common Core standards, and the California State Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) Regulatory Work Group. He has also been involved in collaboration with state and professional organizations to articulate a model for Specific Learning Disability (SLD) identification incorporating the assessment of processing strengths and weaknesses (PSW).

Before transitioning full-time into private practice, Dr. Moran was with Pearson Clinical Assessment for 18 years during which he regularly provided consultation and training to behavioral health assessment providers in the mental health and medical fields, special education, higher education, and psychologist training settings.