Lesbian Therapists in Bozeman, MT

Currently Accepting New Clients. I believe behavior is communication. Sometimes it takes an outside perspective to understand you, a child, or a teen is communicating. By creating a judgement free space and empowering the client, I aim to engage adults, children, and teens in centering themselves, processing their experiences, and advocating for their needs. I also have experience working with people impacted by disabilities and systemic trauma.

Do you struggle with self-confidence or anxiety? Have you experienced grief or gone through trauma? Are you going through the adoption process or struggling with your identity as an adoptee? This can all greatly impact our personal and professional lives. It can make us want to retreat, isolate, and see ourselves in a negative light. Doing this, in turn, can lead into potential depression and not feeling like ourselves anymore. Yet, life has so much to offer, and you are here for a reason. You have a purpose and deserve to live a beautiful, happy and fulfilled life where you feel confident and capable of conquering those anxieties.

I typically treat depression and anxiety along with questions of identity and existential concerns. My passion is helping you explore and discover your true self and your path forward in life. In my experience, we grow and thrive when we learn to have more kindness and compassion for ourselves. I am honored to continue helping clients to uproot unhelpful, self-sabotaging beliefs that hold them back from a more meaningful and enjoyable life.

I am a therapist who believes in the power of embracing your uniqueness and celebrating what makes you, well, you. I believe that every individual is beautifully complex and that therapy should empower you to embrace and express your true self. Specializing in intimacy, LGBTQ+ issues, identity and gender expression, military, as well as women's issues. I am committed to creating a safe and inclusive space for individuals from all walks of life. I understand the challenges that can come with navigating these aspects of one's identity and strive to provide support and guidance in a compassionate and nonjudgmental manner.

As a therapist, my counseling approach is integrative and evidenced-based. I have training and experience in a variety of different therapeutic approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, solution-focused therapy, client-centered therapy, LGBTQIA counseling, and sports and fitness therapy. This diverse background allows me to integrate the counseling approach best suited for your unique needs.

I help individuals who are struggling with navigating life on a daily basis to be curious about why they behave and respond to life the way they do, and work with them to help them to realize the resilience they have always had.

—Accepting Clients— Oftentimes we minimize our own experiences and believe we are not worthy of someone else’s time and energy, limiting our capacity in relationships. I sincerely believe all individuals have the capacity for authenticity, mutuality, and growth-producing connection. These experiences can flourish by providing a relationship that is safe, compassionate, and empowering. It is my hope to cultivate those feelings within counseling to take beyond the room. Counseling can help you understand the meaning you make of experiences, past and present, in your life and engage in a deeper relationship with yourself and others.

When I reflect on what being a therapist means to me, the words that come to me are hope, healing, connection, and wholeness. The entire reason that I am a therapist is to help my clients discover that these do not represent mere words, but signify real experiences. I desire that each person I encounter in my work to experience all that life has to offer. However, I recognize that living in this world is not easy, and there is suffering, loss, trauma, disconnection. These experiences, though incredibly difficult, can also be the impetus and foundation of profound and transformative healing.

I work with any individuals who are struggling with understanding who they are and where they fit into the world. This may include difficulties with depression, anxiety, interpersonal/family conflicts, eating disorders, trauma, and a variety of other concerns. I am particularly interested in helping people develop insight and self-awareness, with the ultimate end of increased understanding of one’s self, goals, and sense of belonging in the world. Therapy can be a challenging yet life-enriching process, and I welcome the opportunity to collaborate with clients to help nourish deep connections.

Do you question the relationship you're in? Do you wonder why conflict sometimes feels so difficult? Does it sometimes feel like there are patterns there that you just can't see or understand, but that maybe if you could, they wouldn't have to continue? Sometimes we reach a point where we are ready for change; where what we have been doing in our life and in our relationships, doesn’t feel good anymore. I will help you get clear on what the patterns are AND where they come from and how to shift them.

I am focusing at this time on with elementary school children and their families. I work a great deal with foster and adoptive families and those who are struggles with systems and economics that make parenting particularly difficult. If your child is frustrated and struggles with staying calm and focusing on what they need to do, if you seem to constantly get phone calls from school and child care regarding you child's behavior, or your placement is struggling with settling into you home please give me a call. I accept medicaid, HMK, HMK+ and most insurance.

I enjoy working with those who want to better understand their own power. It is potent work to examine what patterns are holding you back from your full expression.

We thrive when we feel confident in who we are and when we feel connected to the people that matter the most to us. We can feel disconnected when we are lacking the clarity, confidence, creativity, or the skills to navigate the challenges in our lives. Ashton supports her clients to identify and work toward their own goals and values to overcome the internal obstacles in their lives. Personal growth and healing can help us to foster and maintain the relationships that help us feel we are living meaningful and purposeful lives. Ashton provides outpatient counseling for adolescents, young-adults, and adults.

Individuals who find a safe and knowledgeable therapist can find endless opportunities for personal growth. If you are looking for change, balance, growth, or healing, I could be a great fit as your counselor. In therapy we often redefine strength to include vulnerability in order to connect, heal, and move forward. By fostering this connection we hope to not only survive, but thrive in life through healthy attachment and connection. I provide trauma-informed services to help clients heal, grow, and break down barriers to change. Therapy is client-centered and provided at a safe and comfortable pace, with confidentiality and care.

In a sea of energy, seeking authenticity can be painful. This practice offers a reconditioning of how we process information creating new pathways of understanding to co-construct questions of ethics, empathy, and imagination that include the nuanced fragilities of our shared stories. The therapeutic-transformational approach is centered around disrupting systems of power by guiding fellow humans to claim their own knowledge by engaging their intuition. The work questions the ways larger forces have informed us about what counts as mental health and what constitutes happiness, presence, fulfillment, illness, or suffering.

Are you struggling to enjoy your personal, or professional life because of uncomfortable symptoms you wish to alleviate? Do you wish you could grow personally from talking about your problems? Counseling may be a great choice for you! When you feel understood, respected and believed by a counselor, a world of opportunity and personal growth can open up. Clients from all backgrounds in Bozeman seek out counseling for trauma, personal growth and overall mental health and wellbeing. I offer individualized services tailored to the client's needs. Expect to set goals and meet them, as we approach wellness, together.

You can book your first session on my website! As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, I work with couples who are looking to repair a damaged relationship, find greater emotional and physical intimacy, and achieve healthier conflict resolution. I work exclusively from an Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) perspective, which is based on the human need for attachment and intimacy. For detailed information about the work I do, please visit my Instagram account, The Secure Relationship, where I maintain an educational account for relationships to people around the globe (over 1million followers).

I am accepting new clients. I offer compassionate, down-to-earth counseling in which I strive to build a collaborative therapeutic relationship. My practice specialty continues to be supporting individuals with life adjustments, stress, relational/communication challenges, anxiety, repairing self and/or relationships, and self-esteem issues. (I also specialize helping women end binge and emotional eating as a certified nutrition coach and emotional eating coach in my 6 month coaching program, visit my website for more info on this specifically)

I work with specifically with college-age and young adults into their 30's on identity and self-worth. As an adopted person, I am adoptee-competent and love working with all adoptees, including experience with issues facing ITC and transracial adoptees. I work with you to integrate all the parts of your authentic self into a feeling of being fully "you" everyday. I work on relational/response patterns you feel stuck in, building trust and confidence in your own decision-making, resolving sources of criticism, and I'm just generally dedicated to raising up your self-worth.