Co-Creator
Alli Moreno
Co-Creator. Flourish Counselor Emeritus.
Alli co-created The Lay Counselor Academy with Elizabeth Morrison and teaches alongside her across the program. She brings the lived practice of peer counseling to the curriculum.
A peer counselor by practice.
Alli came to counseling through doing it. Long before she was a teacher of the academy, she was the person who answered when someone needed to talk. The work taught her things about presence, non-judgment, and the limits of advice that no degree had told her.
She brings that lived practice into the academy's curriculum. Where Elizabeth often speaks from twenty-five years of clinical experience, Alli speaks from the perspective most of our learners are coming from: helping people in hard moments without a license, often without a formal title, and learning by doing.
What she teaches.
Alli teaches alongside Elizabeth across all seven modules. She helps shape how the material lands for working adults who are not in clinical roles. Her voice carries the program's commitment to treating learners as adults, not aspirational projects.
The Steinberg Institute named her and Elizabeth their 2023 Champions for this work. She is a Flourish Counselor Emeritus and continues to consult with the practice.
Watch Alli and Elizabeth tell the story.
The short video on the home page is Alli and Elizabeth on how the academy started and who it is for.