Therapists in Bozeman, MT

Welcome! I specialize in counseling children ages 3 to 12. It is my desire to provide a safe, friendly, and non-judgmental environment to encourage exploration, healing, and the development of new skills. I work collaboratively with clients and their parents as we look at the relationships between emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and life events.

I work primarily with adults and older teens struggling with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, grief, trauma, life transitions, and just trying to understand and make sense of their lives. I have experience working in eating disorder treatment as well as college counseling. While I am guided by a variety of approaches, including psychodynamic, attachment, existential, and mindfulness theories, the heart of my work is the attitude that healing comes through connection and that we move through difficult times by learning to continually open up to experience.

Are you satisfied with the quality of your relationships? Most people agree that our life is made infinitely better by close connections and becomes intensely challenging when our relationships are problematic, painful, and unfulfilling. Are you stressed, burdened, frustrated, outraged, or lonely within your relationship with others? Or is the relationship you have with yourself overwhelmed with internal conflict? I can help. My private practice empowers individuals and couples to significantly improve their intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. I foster client authenticity, self-love and self-esteem within individuals and guide couples through conversations that create close connections and secure bonds.

Do you want to feel confident and calm in yourself, but feel like you’re never quite enough, or even that you’re too much at times? Do you want to be able to relax and fully enjoy the present moment, but just can’t shake a sense of stress and anxiety? Do you want to feel accepted by others, but find yourself worried about being judged or catch yourself thinking critically of yourself? If so, great awareness! Now, let's work through the barriers that keep you stuck. If your goals are to learn coping skills, challenge old patterns that no longer work, effectively process emotions, and live more authentically then send me a message!

I believe that clients have a right to expect therapy to be highly effective in helping alleviate mental health struggles, including mood disorder, eating disorders, trauma and PTSD, and many more. If you have found that talk therapy has afforded you limited progress, I encourage you to call me to discuss how a different approach is likely beneficial for you. I am extensively trained in CBT, DBT (200+ hours including training with Dr Linehan, founder of DBT) and am certified in EMDR. I closely follow new research and my care is informed by evidenced based practice.

My aim is to help you accept, understand and love yourself; while also encouraging personal growth, authenticity and wellness. One of my areas of specialty is healing relationships. Most people struggle within an important relationship at some point in life. I help people navigate these challenges and transform their most important relationships (romantic or not & with others or with yourself). My goal is to support you in your unique process of healing, growth, and increased well-being. I use Emotionally Focused Therapy, the most successful form of relationship therapy, in my work with individuals, youth, adolescents, and couples.

The teenage years can be really tough on teens AND their parents. Changes happen that can throw their emotions on a rollercoaster -- sadness, worry or anger can take over. Friends can push a teen toward dangerous choices. Add on the stress of high school, early romantic relationships, working towards independence, and there are all sorts of places that a teenager can struggle. It takes a special sort of counselor to work with a teen. Someone who is serious and kind when they struggle, but keeps a sense of humor, wonder and joy that can connect with them past those struggles.