Moira’s Journey as a SLP
My name is Moira Gallagher, and I’m a licensed speech-language pathologist with a deep commitment to helping others find their voice, strength, and healing.
I’ve always been passionate about serving others through evidence-based, empathetic care. For a long time, I imagined I’d spend my entire career in the hospital setting. However, my path took a significant turn after I experienced a traumatic injury that was misdiagnosed and inadequately treated. Despite clear signs of bilateral upper extremity central nervous system decline in strength, neuropathic pain, numbness and tingling down my arms. Unable to move my hands functionally. My pain was dismissed, I was medically gaslit as “anxious”, and left to advocate for myself to get an outpatient MRI that the ER provider refused me. That fight that ultimately led to the correct neurosurgical consult, and the truth about my condition of sustaining an acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury with central cord syndrome requiring cervical spine discectomy and fusion surgery at the level of C5-6 and remove the disc that was protruding moderate-severely into my spinal cord.
That experience deeply changed me. It opened my eyes to the gaps in our healthcare system, the trauma of being unheard, and the urgent need for more patient-centered, trauma-informed care. It also showed me that my healing journey needed to include a professional one: phasing out of the hospital and into private practice — where I could offer care that fills my cup without draining my soul.
Through my healing journey I pursued sound and energetic holistic services which have been so vital to allowing my nervous system to relax to even heal. I decided to pursue a certification in sound healing to expand my practice as a healer. My goal is to bring both medical clinical expertise, personal understanding of my experiences as a patient, and now holistic somatic healing to my work practice.
I’m here not just as a therapist, but as a gentle healer, fierce advocate, & compassionate guide for others navigating complex recoveries, difficulty swallowing, speaking, cognitive-communication challenges, and struggling with nervous system dysregulation.
I earned both my Bachelor of Science (2016) and Master of Science (2018) degrees in Communication Sciences and Disorders, with a minor in Psychology, from Texas State University in San Marcos. I hold and maintain my certificate of clinical competence through the American Speech and Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and maintain state licensure to practice through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR).
