Therapists in Missoula County, MT
Deeper self-awareness, relief from depression and anxiety, and personal growth. Good, collaborative therapy provides the opportunity to more easily experience these things. With respectful tact, I offer help to meet personal challenges, gain confidence, and skillfully manage stress and conflict. I aim to understand your experience with sophistication while providing skillful insight. A greater sense of well-being, vitality, and enjoyment of life are possible.
Deeper self-awareness, relief from depression and anxiety, and personal growth. Good, collaborative therapy provides the opportunity to more easily experience these things. With respectful tact, I offer help to meet personal challenges, gain confidence, and skillfully manage stress and conflict. I aim to understand your experience with sophistication while providing skillful insight. A greater sense of well-being, vitality, and enjoyment of life are possible.
We will collaborate to co-create lower anxiety and higher sensitivity to your distinct emotions so that they can guide you and not interfere with your thinking, but rather make you much more powerful in your decision-making. This will help resolve previous traumas and the trance states that they create that are so hard to escape. If desired, we can add Neurofeedback To aid in this process or resolve things like chronic pain Or anxiety or attentional problems and myriad of other maladies. All of this will boost executive functioning leading too much Faster and Better decision-making, Optimizing your joy And Relationship quality.
We will collaborate to co-create lower anxiety and higher sensitivity to your distinct emotions so that they can guide you and not interfere with your thinking, but rather make you much more powerful in your decision-making. This will help resolve previous traumas and the trance states that they create that are so hard to escape. If desired, we can add Neurofeedback To aid in this process or resolve things like chronic pain Or anxiety or attentional problems and myriad of other maladies. All of this will boost executive functioning leading too much Faster and Better decision-making, Optimizing your joy And Relationship quality.
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.
Naomi Thornton
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Missoula, MT 59801
Not accepting new clients
I offer a supportive non-judgmental space for individuals and families to explore the unique issues and struggles they face. I believe that even in the most difficult of times there is also an opportunity for change and growth. Specialty areas include healing from trauma and loss, relationship based parenting, life transitions, resolving relationship and family issues, and coping with anxiety and depression. I use a variety of approaches in order to meet each person's interests and needs including insight oriented, behavioral, crisis management, and supportive.
I offer a supportive non-judgmental space for individuals and families to explore the unique issues and struggles they face. I believe that even in the most difficult of times there is also an opportunity for change and growth. Specialty areas include healing from trauma and loss, relationship based parenting, life transitions, resolving relationship and family issues, and coping with anxiety and depression. I use a variety of approaches in order to meet each person's interests and needs including insight oriented, behavioral, crisis management, and supportive.
Online Therapists
In art therapy, we make things together to create a bridge to communication, sometimes staying in the metaphor, and other times using the art product as a jumping off point for verbal discussion. When using narrative therapy, we find new and creative ways to look at old, unproductive stories. We create goals together. I provide the solid, predictable framework and ongoing support, as well as parent coaching. We create opportunities for deep insight, meaningful growth and healthy risk-taking.
In art therapy, we make things together to create a bridge to communication, sometimes staying in the metaphor, and other times using the art product as a jumping off point for verbal discussion. When using narrative therapy, we find new and creative ways to look at old, unproductive stories. We create goals together. I provide the solid, predictable framework and ongoing support, as well as parent coaching. We create opportunities for deep insight, meaningful growth and healthy risk-taking.
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Schema Therapy
How does schema therapy work?
Schema therapy is based on the idea that maladaptive thought patterns formed in childhood—that other people can never be relied on, for example—can interfere with healthy functioning in adulthood. Accordingly, schema therapy works by directly targeting such unhealthy schemas, identifying their consequences, and replacing them with more adaptive ways of thinking. To this end, schema therapists aim to “reparent” the client by offering what they didn’t get in childhood—validation, for instance, or compassion—to reorient their worldview.
Is schema therapy evidence-based?
Schema therapy is still considered relatively new, and research on its efficacy is still in progress. However, some studies have concluded that it can be effective at treating certain mental health conditions, most notably personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder. Evidence for its efficacy in treating conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD is promising but less conclusive, and experts warn that much of the existing research is of low quality.
Is schema therapy a type of CBT?
Schema therapy is based on many principles of CBT, most notably the process of recognizing and challenging maladaptive thought patterns. But because schema therapy also draws from other approaches,including psychoanalysis and Gestalt therapy, it is not considered a form of CBT. It also typically delves deeper into the client’s childhood than does CBT.
How does schema therapy work?
Schema therapy does not call for a set number of sessions and is instead open-ended, with the treatment timeline depending on the client’s primary concern(s), progress, and preferences. Treatment that lasts between six months and two years is common, though many clients will start to see progress much earlier than that.