Psychotherapy is an active process resulting in clarity and change. It can help you identify ineffective patterns of thinking and behavior, which may create: stress, emotional problems, stress related medical problems, addiction problems, and/or relationship problems. Although the work can be difficult, it is profoundly rewarding and life changing.
We focus on solutions rather than problems, and as such help people:
Move from being down to being up
Reverse loneliness
Turn inner turmoil to inner peace
Resolve marriage & relationship conflicts
Tolerate the unbearable misery of illness
Turn life stress into life balance
Move from worry & fear, to peace & confidence
Turn from feeling lost to living with a life strategy
At the Center for Positive Change, LLC, our goal is to mutually determine the cause of your problems. Together, we then develop effective and lasting strategies. Finally, we implement positive long-term solutions as you move towards well-being. I use a combination of approaches because the "one size fits all" approach simply lacks results.
What We Do:
We integrate the latest brain science into your treatment.
We apply the best evidence-based psychological methods to your unique case.
We help people understand and break through mental blocks in performance.
We help you play to your strengths so you can move towards positive solutions.
We provide training in mindfulness meditation in order to help you reach and maintain your goals through better focus.
I spend much of my day helping people control their panic, depression, trauma, anxiety, grief, OCD symptoms, loneliness, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or relationship/marriage issues. I also have a special area of interest in working with stress-related medical problems (i.e., high blood pressure, headaches, digestive problems, COPD, and heart problems).
I strongly believe in working as a team consisting of: you, your physician, other medical providers, and myself in complimentary medicine. I believe you are the most important member of your mind-body-spirit medical treatment team.
How We Do It:
Psychological testing
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Psychodynamic-oriented therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Mindfulness meditation
Exposure therapy
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Couples work
Whatever emotional or mental health problem you’re dealing with, we will listen to you carefully and help you regain your reason to get up in the morning.
Telemedicine
As a licensed psychologist in Montana and Washington I am able to offer telemedicine services to people in rural sections of both States. Certain rules and regulations apply; so if you are interested in telemedicine, please feel free to contact me.
Insurance
I accept many insurances, and for those of which I am not signed up with, typically you may work with me as an “Out of Network” provider.
Call now to schedule your appointment at (406) 830-3808.
Good Faith Estimate Statement
- You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost.
- Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who DON'T HAVE insurance or who are NOT USING insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.
- You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.
- Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 ‘business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service.
- If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute
this bill, - Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.
- For questions or more information about your tight to a Good Faith Estimate,
visit https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises
New Patient Forms
Please email, fax, or bring all the forms to your appointment. For the last form (HIPPA) you are welcome to just print off page 12 for your appointment.
Thank you.