Life takes a toll on the strongest of us. Fortunately, change is inevitable, and transformation is possible - once you let another join you on your path. We're here to help that transformative process naturally unfold, so that together, you're able to become your best self and travel life's journey unbroken and whole. We are Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors who are passionate about self-development, healthy relationships, well-being, and optimal mental health.
Located in Missoula and servicing all of Western Montana from the Bitterroot, Potomac, and Flathead Valleys - We specialize in working with adult individuals, teens, children, and their their parents in a variety of different ways that are tailored to meet one's own needs and/or goals.
Our constant aim is to enhance the quality of life for those we work with whether it be by improving inter-personal relationships, facilitating healing processes, building emotional capacities, undoing old attachment wounds and the impact of aloneness, or by developing the "Self".
Located in Missoula and servicing all of Western Montana from the Bitterroot, Potomac, and Flathead Valleys - We specialize in working with adult individuals, teens, children, and their their parents in a variety of different ways that are tailored to meet one's own needs and/or goals.
Our constant aim is to enhance the quality of life for those we work with whether it be by improving inter-personal relationships, facilitating healing processes, building emotional capacities, undoing old attachment wounds and the impact of aloneness, or by developing the "Self".
Services
In a very simplified way, counseling is a relationship, and a potentially very healing and corrective one at that.
Unlike a relationship with friends or family who may have their own unhealthy behaviors, agendas, and biases, the relationship between you and I will be an exemplary one that is healthy, therapeutic, and which develops and deepens over the course of time.
It is the foundation of everything to come.
Counseling tends to evolve in a series of three stages or phases.
The first stage comprises you and I developing "therapeutic rapport".
Unlike a relationship with friends or family who may have their own unhealthy behaviors, agendas, and biases, the relationship between you and I will be an exemplary one that is healthy, therapeutic, and which develops and deepens over the course of time.
It is the foundation of everything to come.
Counseling tends to evolve in a series of three stages or phases.
The first stage comprises you and I developing "therapeutic rapport".
The modern age has caught up to even us therapists.
There's no denying the impact technology is having on our lives and the ways in which it can help improve it.
In order to provide greater access to those who seek counseling services I offer individuals the chance to work with me online through telephone, email, and HIPAA compliant video conferencing platforms.
Online counseling isn't a be all end all solution to therapy.
It has some trade-offs compared to engaging in a face to face conversation, but for certain people, the benefits might outweigh the costs.
There's no denying the impact technology is having on our lives and the ways in which it can help improve it.
In order to provide greater access to those who seek counseling services I offer individuals the chance to work with me online through telephone, email, and HIPAA compliant video conferencing platforms.
Online counseling isn't a be all end all solution to therapy.
It has some trade-offs compared to engaging in a face to face conversation, but for certain people, the benefits might outweigh the costs.
Children do not have the advanced vocabulary or the developed brain complexities that adults do in order to reflect and vocalize accurate thoughts & feelings.
Children play what their life experience has been, the problems they're faced with, and they play to find solutions to those problems in order to heal and adapt to their world.
Adapting to unhealthy environments is a survival strategy that works for a while but ultimately leads to dysfunctional behavior later in life.
As caring therapists and parents, we want to prevent that from happening.
Children play what their life experience has been, the problems they're faced with, and they play to find solutions to those problems in order to heal and adapt to their world.
Adapting to unhealthy environments is a survival strategy that works for a while but ultimately leads to dysfunctional behavior later in life.
As caring therapists and parents, we want to prevent that from happening.
DIR Floortime is a therapeutic approach used for children impacted by autism and special needs.
This type of modality is unique in that it takes into account the individual interests of the child and works on helping to challenge them when appropriate in order to reach developmental milestones as well as focusing on problem solving and social / relational skillsets.
Floortime is different from the popular Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in that it's play based and meets the child's needs by specifically engaging with them in their own interests to facilitate growth whereas ABA focuses primarily on behavior modification.
This type of modality is unique in that it takes into account the individual interests of the child and works on helping to challenge them when appropriate in order to reach developmental milestones as well as focusing on problem solving and social / relational skillsets.
Floortime is different from the popular Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in that it's play based and meets the child's needs by specifically engaging with them in their own interests to facilitate growth whereas ABA focuses primarily on behavior modification.
This option is for parents or caregivers of children who do not wish to initially have their child enter therapy but feel as though they could still benefit from collaborating with a professional.
An assessment will be taken of the child's symptoms, developmental history, familial background, presenting emotional states, displayed problematic behavior at home and/or school, as well as past and current child-rearing strategies.
The therapist consultant and involved parents/caregivers will work as a team to assess the child's needs and address any concerns.
An assessment will be taken of the child's symptoms, developmental history, familial background, presenting emotional states, displayed problematic behavior at home and/or school, as well as past and current child-rearing strategies.
The therapist consultant and involved parents/caregivers will work as a team to assess the child's needs and address any concerns.
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