Therapists in Hamilton, MT
Julie is one of the most insightful, caring counselors showing keen insight into matters of love, affairs, childhood sexual abuse, with a big-hearted approach to heal emotional and physical scars of childhood and victimization. With couples, Julie encourages loving with abandon from a position of personal strength and solid self. She relies as much on 34 years marriage as she does on system interventions and textbook solutions. She is also talented counseling those with issues stemming from chronic diseases like diabetes, MS, and other auto-immune conditions. Julie loves counseling women ready to use kindhearted assertiveness.
Julie is one of the most insightful, caring counselors showing keen insight into matters of love, affairs, childhood sexual abuse, with a big-hearted approach to heal emotional and physical scars of childhood and victimization. With couples, Julie encourages loving with abandon from a position of personal strength and solid self. She relies as much on 34 years marriage as she does on system interventions and textbook solutions. She is also talented counseling those with issues stemming from chronic diseases like diabetes, MS, and other auto-immune conditions. Julie loves counseling women ready to use kindhearted assertiveness.
Online Therapists
You're late, again! Scrambling to try and get out the door you wonder why you just can't "be normal" like everyone else. You speed to work cursing at every red light and car that's in your path. "Why am I like this?!" Feelings of shame, anger, and frustration rush through your body. You long to feel different, to be able to do the seemingly simple tasks everyone can do without effort, without procrastinating. But you can't, or at least that is how it feels. Everyone tells you to makes lists, keep a schedule, set alarms...but you've tried all that and none of it works. You start to believe there just must be something wrong with you.
You're late, again! Scrambling to try and get out the door you wonder why you just can't "be normal" like everyone else. You speed to work cursing at every red light and car that's in your path. "Why am I like this?!" Feelings of shame, anger, and frustration rush through your body. You long to feel different, to be able to do the seemingly simple tasks everyone can do without effort, without procrastinating. But you can't, or at least that is how it feels. Everyone tells you to makes lists, keep a schedule, set alarms...but you've tried all that and none of it works. You start to believe there just must be something wrong with you.
In order to grow and thrive in life, we all need a sense of feeling understood and enlivened within ourselves, in relationships and in community. I offer a present-centered approach for individual adults, parents, and families who seek to make change, heal from past trauma, move and transform through grief and loss, and improve interpersonal skills.
In order to grow and thrive in life, we all need a sense of feeling understood and enlivened within ourselves, in relationships and in community. I offer a present-centered approach for individual adults, parents, and families who seek to make change, heal from past trauma, move and transform through grief and loss, and improve interpersonal skills.
My approach to counseling blends psychoanalytic, Jungian, and narrative therapy. The clients I serve are often dealing with the pain of anxiety, depression, grief, or unresolved trauma; they also tend to be adept at hiding their feelings about these difficult problems. I have extensive experience counseling college students as well as treating wildland firefighters, first responders, and others whose jobs require handling emergencies. Regardless of your path in life, talking about problems with an objective outsider in a safe, welcoming, confidential setting can ease one's private pain and increase well-being.
My approach to counseling blends psychoanalytic, Jungian, and narrative therapy. The clients I serve are often dealing with the pain of anxiety, depression, grief, or unresolved trauma; they also tend to be adept at hiding their feelings about these difficult problems. I have extensive experience counseling college students as well as treating wildland firefighters, first responders, and others whose jobs require handling emergencies. Regardless of your path in life, talking about problems with an objective outsider in a safe, welcoming, confidential setting can ease one's private pain and increase well-being.
Ambrosia Lynn Isely
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PMH-C, SSPP, EMDR
Verified Verified
Missoula, MT 59802 (Online Only)
Are you feeling lost? Are you unsure if you are making the right decisions? I am here to help! Anyone can start therapy but it takes trust in your therapist to truly invest in the process. This is why I use an attachment/relational modeI in my work with others. I am committed to creating this environment with you. You are the expert in your life, and I am here to help you find your highest purpose. When working with children, I have a variety of mediums to aid in organizing their emotional world. I use sand tray, play therapy, cognitive based approaches, EMDR, and clinically based sound therapy techniques.
Are you feeling lost? Are you unsure if you are making the right decisions? I am here to help! Anyone can start therapy but it takes trust in your therapist to truly invest in the process. This is why I use an attachment/relational modeI in my work with others. I am committed to creating this environment with you. You are the expert in your life, and I am here to help you find your highest purpose. When working with children, I have a variety of mediums to aid in organizing their emotional world. I use sand tray, play therapy, cognitive based approaches, EMDR, and clinically based sound therapy techniques.
My passion is helping others on their road to self discovery. I have 8 years of experience, and have worked in a wide variety of settings with diverse clients of all ages. My goal is to provide a safe judgement free space for you to express your struggles and needs and work towards solutions. My practice is very client centered and I try to tailor sessions to meet the needs of each I see. I strive to provide support, understanding, and insight to help you on your journey to wellness. My goal to is to help you become the best individual you can be.
My passion is helping others on their road to self discovery. I have 8 years of experience, and have worked in a wide variety of settings with diverse clients of all ages. My goal is to provide a safe judgement free space for you to express your struggles and needs and work towards solutions. My practice is very client centered and I try to tailor sessions to meet the needs of each I see. I strive to provide support, understanding, and insight to help you on your journey to wellness. My goal to is to help you become the best individual you can be.
I work with children, teens, and adults, helping them express and understand their emotions, as well as find solutions to current challenges, whether those be in relationships, self-esteem, life transitions, behavior, depression, anxiety, stress, more serious mental health disorders, or finding meaning and purpose. I help clients practice healthy coping and relationship skills, and support them in making changes based on their needs, strengths, and interests. Building a caring, trusting, and supportive relationship is my number one goal so that I can partner with you to help you meet your or your family's goals.
I work with children, teens, and adults, helping them express and understand their emotions, as well as find solutions to current challenges, whether those be in relationships, self-esteem, life transitions, behavior, depression, anxiety, stress, more serious mental health disorders, or finding meaning and purpose. I help clients practice healthy coping and relationship skills, and support them in making changes based on their needs, strengths, and interests. Building a caring, trusting, and supportive relationship is my number one goal so that I can partner with you to help you meet your or your family's goals.
Majken Elek
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Missoula, MT 59801 (Online Only)
We all deserve to feel aligned, safe and nurtured. Cultivating compassionate self-awareness and acceptance, are at the core of healing, change and growth. When we feel healthy and fulfilled we are more likely to live with meaning. I utilize an integrative lens, centered in mindfulness, somatic, attachment and IFS orientations to promote increased consciousness of thoughts, values, feelings, and behavior patterns. My approach is intuitive, and warm. Our work together involves expanding awareness of the inner mind, and felt senses to move towards a more integrated self. I am tele health only at this time. Serving Oregon and Montana.
We all deserve to feel aligned, safe and nurtured. Cultivating compassionate self-awareness and acceptance, are at the core of healing, change and growth. When we feel healthy and fulfilled we are more likely to live with meaning. I utilize an integrative lens, centered in mindfulness, somatic, attachment and IFS orientations to promote increased consciousness of thoughts, values, feelings, and behavior patterns. My approach is intuitive, and warm. Our work together involves expanding awareness of the inner mind, and felt senses to move towards a more integrated self. I am tele health only at this time. Serving Oregon and Montana.
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Adoption Therapists
Does my adopted child need therapy?
Not every adopted child needs therapy. However, many can benefit from seeing an adoption-informed therapist, especially if they were victims of abuse or neglect, appear withdrawn or disconnected, have behavioral or developmental issues (which may or may not be related to their adoption), are struggling with feelings of grief or loss surrounding their birth parents, or find it difficult to establish an identity, a challenge that often becomes most apparent during adolescence.
When should adoptive parents seek therapy?
Prospective parents can benefit from therapy even before an adoption—for example, to voice worries and fears; to reconcile infertility struggles, if relevant; or simply to prepare themselves for parenthood. After the adoption, parents who are struggling to bond with their child; are unsure how to talk about adoption or related issues, such as race; or whose child is dealing with developmental, behavioral, or psychiatric concerns can address these and other issues with the help of an adoption-competent therapist.
Is family therapy appropriate for adoptive families?
Family therapy can be invaluable for strengthening the bond between adoptive parents and children, helping the latter feel more secure in their place in the family. Family therapy can also help adoptive families navigate complex communication issues—for example, parents who feel uncomfortable discussing race with their child, who in turn feels invalidated by their silence, or a child who has questions about his birth parents but avoids asking them out of fear of hurting his adoptive parents’ feelings.
What therapy is not appropriate for adoption issues?
A discredited therapy known as “attachment therapy” (sometimes called “holding therapy” or “rebirthing therapy”) should not be used to treat adopted and foster children, though it was largely designed for this population. Attachment therapy involves restraining, coercing, and punishing the child in order for them to “release” negative emotions and attach to their new caregivers—techniques that are abusive and dangerous and have even proven fatal in some cases.