Lehigh County counselor admits to secretly recording in his Quakertown office

A Lehigh County counselor admitted this week to secretly recording a number of women, including some staff members, at his Quakertown office.

Jonathan Moyer, 55, of Alburtis, pleaded guilty Monday in Bucks County Court to all charges against him, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s office. Those charges included 12 counts each of felony intercepting communications and misdemeanors of invasion of privacy.

Moyer will be sentenced in August.

The DA’s office charged Moyer in March 2025 with recording four women at the Quakertown office of Empower Life Coaching and Counseling, where he provided clinical counseling for more than 10 years. Investigators filed additional charges in June alleging he recorded a total of 21 people.

Moyer served as the office’s program director and worked from the office in Quakertown and another one in Bally, Berks County.

Authorities said Moyer set up a hidden camera in the bathroom of his office and secretly recorded people. Investigators searched his Quakertown office at 523 W. Broad St. and found a charging block and a key fob that was a covert video recorder with a micro SD card. They also found multiple charging block-like cameras, covert pens, SD cards and media storage devices in his Alburtis home.

Empower Life Coaching and Counseling posted on its website shortly after Moyer’s arrest that staff contacted clients to make them aware. The counseling center said at the time it believed the alleged recordings were from an isolated event. Both offices closed a few weeks after Moyer’s arrest.

Moyer remains free on $150,000 bail while he awaits sentencing.

Three former patients filed a class-action lawsuit against Moyer and the center, alleging the center negligently hired Moyer. The suit remains active in Bucks County Common Pleas Court.