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JEANNINE MOGA, MA, MSW, LCSW CHIEF HAPPINESS OFFICER, VETGIRL, LLC
Jeannine Moga is a licensed clinical social worker and VETgirl’s Chief Happiness Officer. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology/Law & Society from Purdue University and thought she wanted to be a Criminology professor – so she pursued graduate work in Sociology at Washington State University. After finishing her Master’s, she decided she preferred “boots on the ground” work with people and communities. She worked in multiple human services settings – domestic violence intervention, juvenile corrections, and program development & evaluation – before pursuing her Master of Social Work degree at the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on human-animal relationships.
During her graduate training, Jeannine worked with an animal-assisted therapy program and also developed her own clinical internship at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center – where she first worked with VETgirl’s Dr. Justine Lee. She was hooked on veterinary work and founded the VMC’s Family & Community Services program shortly after graduation. A number of years later, Jeannine was asked to start a similar program for the NC State University Veterinary Hospital, where she also pioneered a veterinary clinical ethics consultation program to help veterinary staff, faculty, and students build solutions to complex ethical dilemmas. Jeannine left academic medicine in 2018 with the goal of better serving the mental health needs of animal care professionals. She now maintains a small private practice in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, specializing in anxiety, depression, grief, and stress-related syndromes. Jeannine is also a “work-life wellbeing advocate” who provides continuing education and program consultation to veterinary and social services organizations across the country. When she isn’t working, Jeannine can be found riding her horse (Georgia), baking, playing in the dirt, or biting off some sort of home improvement project involving power tools. She and her husband share their home with four dogs (Ronan, Bridget, Exo, and Pip), an ancient canary (Rupert), and a teenage Fortnite wizard who calls himself The Tooting Squid.
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