Emotionally Focused Therapists in Missoula, MT

If you're looking for a safe and supportive environment to work through challenges and heal from trauma, you're in the right place. During the last 10+ years of providing therapy in Missoula I have worked with adults, children and families. I'm passionate about helping clients process their current or past struggles. I have helped birth, foster and adoptive families who are parenting children with diverse needs or challenging behaviors. I offer support to caregivers who would like to work through their personal struggles, as well as assistance to those who want to add strategies to their parenting toolbox.

I offer a curious, warm, and informed space to explore wherever you are in your life. I see my role as a counselor as being a familiar, safe, and knowledgeable person to help you to find the support to heal the frustrations between those parts that feel stuck and the parts that help you thrive.

Do you or your child struggle with routines or transitioning between tasks? Imagine being able to turn the TV off without an outburst. Or not misplacing your wallet and keys on a regular basis. Get support with these executive function and regulation tasks so that you can feel more organized, calm and in control of your daily life.

Do you ever feel like you're reliving the same day over and over again, like in the movie Groundhog Day? Even though you want to change and move forward, and you have the talent and know-how, everything you try just doesn't seem to work. If you have ADHD, this may sound familiar. Many people with ADHD feel like they're stuck in a cycle of negative self-talk that holds them back. It can be tough to break free from this cycle, and it can lead to some pretty negative feelings like self-doubt, shame, apathy, and even despair. But there is hope! With proper guidance and support, you can overcome these challenges and move forward.

My commitment to social justice work is rooted in compassion, empathy, and raising awareness so that we can all celebrate our similarities and differences. My practice model is hope-filled and research-informed, focusing on attachment, strengths-based, and trauma-informed frameworks. Therapy is about building a safe space, radical acceptance, courageous self-assessment, and shared humanity. This process unearths strength, courage, and insight, highlighting that the client is truly the expert over their own life. A supportive, non-judgmental, and curious relationship is the key to good therapy.

Discover how therapy can enlighten your outlook on life and aid in the discovery of your best self. It is my goal is to create a safe and open environment for couples, individuals, families, and athletes to explore and conquer the many challenges life often brings. Some of the common issues I work with clients on include relationship challenges, trauma, couples and marital counseling, performance enhancement for athletes, life transitions (e.g. marriage, new baby, retirement, empty nest), self-empowerment, and increasing confidence. You do not need to walk this journey alone.

My therapy practice specializes in mood disorders, working with individuals, couples and families. I am also a Board Certified Executive Coach and specialize in business coaching and leadership development with an emphasis on Emotional Intelligence. Through a fun, collaborative relationship, there is always a way to address the issues you face and learn coping strategies to help you both right now and in the future. Depression, anxiety, substance abuse, trauma, marital conflict, job stress, career and life transitions.

My aim as a counselor is to provide a safe space to support you in navigating life’s multitude of challenges with compassion and presence. My hope is that you come away with a sense of empowerment and resilience to cultivate lasting change in your life. Therapy can be challenging and vulnerable and rewarding, and I would be honored to be invited into your process.

I've been in private practice since 1999 and have worked primarily in Helena, Great Falls and Missoula. I have worked with thousands of people, helping them make positive, empowering changes in their lives. I offer a welcoming relaxed environment for helping individuals find new resources for self care, and rediscover their own inner strengths. I practice a client-centered, non-directive style of hypnotherapy that easily integrates with a clients own practices of meditation, prayer, self-reflection or mindfulness practice. I currently have an office in Missoula and am also available for telephone sessions.

I believe in counseling as a dynamic partnership that's highly effective in helping us find insight, acceptance, and change so that we can create lasting fulfillment and meaning in our lives. I work with clients who are curious about themselves and who are up for the challenge of taking on meaningful growth. If you're feeling stuck in ineffective patterns, overwhelmed by anxiety and depression, or dissatisfied in an important relationship, let's connect.

Whether you are going through a difficult moment in your life or pursuing personal growth, I am here for you. As a person-centered counselor, I will join you in a collaborative process, offering you my presence, experience and dedication to support you in your own healing in a safe, non-judgmental space.

There are many barriers that prevent us from moving forward in life and therapy can help to overcome them. Over the last 15+ years, I have worked with individuals with a variety of struggles. I find that there is a strong connection between the expression of emotions and how healthy our relationships are. With a firm grasp of the research behind effective treatments, I balance compassion with strategies for creating lasting change. We will work collaboratively to create a plan for your individual needs. Therapy will focuses on actions, thoughts and feelings and when we may need to accept or change them.

Are you looking for a change? I would love to meet with you & offer my undivided presence & attention as we seek to find a way to make your life work best for you. I have 20+ years of experience & am confident that, if you decide to work with me, I can help provide you with the support & insight you need to make changes to improve your life so that it better suits your needs. I see individual adults and have experience in the areas of personal growth, depression, anxiety, trauma, divorce, parenting, relational conflict, behavioral concerns & adoption.

Couples and families struggle with a vast array of challenges. These challenges can cause depression and anxiety and affect even the strongest relationships. Although couple and family relationships can be complex and emotionally charged, I can help you gain insights and clarity that will help you understand and improve your relationships.

Hi there! My name is Erik Nielsen, and I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). I was born and raised here in Missoula and am happy to call Montana home. I would be honored to work with you as you move through your complex and unique path towards health and wellness. Whether it be depression, anxiety, grief, substance use, identity or gender issues, trauma, work and life transitions, or if you are working towards connection with your better self, I am here to help.

I believe that we're all works in progress, having found this to be true of clients struggling with life changes to clients with the most complicated of problems--even young gang members, in whom I've had the privilege of seeing humanity and goodness. The role of therapist, for me, is one of empowering, bearing witness to life's bewilderment and suffering, and jointly creating a peace of mind and resilience, sometimes in the face of unresolved problems, while honoring one's own truth and rewriting our narratives in a way that makes sense to us as we make meaning to our lives.

I provide psychotherapy and didactic trauma education for individuals, couples and teens in Missoula and Montana at large. My work with clients centers around complex developmental trauma, the body-brain connection, attachment and polyvagal theory. After working with children and families, including foster and adoptive parents, I love bringing my passion for trauma education to help clients learn more about what their brain and bodies are trying to communicate, identifying protective strategies and working to create techniques to promote healthy emotional regulation. LCSW Candidate.

PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression are real. King Family Behavioral Health is a safe space to identify a healing path and new skills to address the symptoms of these and many other mental health struggles impacting your life and relationships. If you are ready to create a change, we are here to help!

I believe that psychotherapy is an active process resulting in clarity and change. It can help identify ineffective patterns of thinking and behavior, which may create stress, emotional problems, stress related medical problems, addiction problems, and/or relationship problems. Sometimes the work can be difficult but can also be profoundly rewarding and life changing. I believe in the power of positive change and would love to help you turn your stress into a life balance.