Mental Health Blog
Advanced Counseling of Bozeman believes you are your own best healing resource — and you don’t have to do it alone.
Explore our blog for perspectives and tools to support your journey toward better mental health and lasting wellbeing. We believe in using evidence-based, heart-centered methods and trusted, effective modalities to achieve the peaceful, purposeful, and fulfilled life that you deserve.
Acquaint yourself with the work of our experienced clinicians and see if their work speaks to you.
Living in Rural America with Pride
Providing support to our LGBTQIA+ communities in urban and rural areas.
What to Know About Starting EMDR Therapy
Important things to understand about EMDR if you are considering starting this type of therapy.
In a Rut? How to get Unstuck
Ever feel like you are ‘just existing?’ Like your everyday routine is, just that, a routine and you can’t get yourself out of the rut? It happens to everyone!
Supporting Your Teen Experiencing Suicidal Ideation
It can be a scary and stressful situation for all parents wondering if their child is suicidal or supporting them when they do experience suicidal ideation. We do know that this is becoming a more common issue our teens are facing, especially in Montana.
The Negative Cycle of Relationships
The negative cycle in a relationship can be an exhausting and damaging pattern that often emerges when partners get caught in a cycle of unproductive communication and behaviors.
Book Review, UNbroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong
In “UnBroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong”, Dr. McDonald dives into misconceptions about trauma with the latest neuroscience and psychology research.
Can We Misuse Therapeutic Language?
With the surge in mental health awareness and access to information online and through social media, therapy terms have become more widely known and used in everyday conversations.
What does it mean to be Neurodivergent?
The definition of Neurodivergent is an adjective meaning, “differing in mental or neurological functioning from what is considered typical or normal; Not neurotypical”. However, this is a simple meaning that spans a wide range of things that can at times seem overwhelming to grasp.
A Guide to Strengthening Your Relationship
Relationships are intricate tapestries woven from the threads of love, communication, trust, and understanding. However, every tapestry encounters frays, tears, and knots along the way.
Book Review, Fight Languages: Turning Conflict into Connection
Lena Morgan is a former birth doula who now works as a conflict resolution specialist, to help individuals, partnerships, families, organizations, and businesses translate conflict into connection.
Seasonal Changes and Mental Health
Seasonal changes can significantly impact mental health and wellbeing, and especially living in Montana we know that winters can be particularly brutal.
How to Have the Hard Conversation About Suicide
It can be difficult to have an honest conversation with someone if you suspect they are struggling with suicidal thoughts or feelings, or if they come to you expressing suicidal ideation. However, if you have some conversation tools in hand, hopefully the conversation will be productive, and you are confident in knowing that you helped.
Book Review: What My Bones Know
The book, What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo, is a memoir of Stephanie’s journey to understand and heal from childhood abuse and trauma.
A Path to Relationship Healing
If you've found yourself facing challenges in your romantic relationship, you're not alone. Couples therapy, also known as marriage or relationship counseling, can be a beacon of hope for those seeking to mend and strengthen their bonds.
Coping with Chronic Pain
Having a constant flow of pain surging through your body every day, all day long, can be both physically and mentally exhausting and stressful. While healthcare professionals can prescribe medications and other alternatives to reduce physical pain, treating the mental and emotional side of chronic pain can be equally as important.
Managing Holiday Stress
Holidays are just around the corner and while this can be a fun and exciting time, it can also bring stress.
The Struggle to Maintain Mental Health in the Workplace
Let’s discuss the ways in which we have brought about change for mental health in the workplace but also ways we continue to struggle.
Nutrition for Mental Health
We are aware of the physical health benefits of eating a well-balanced diet for our physical health, but what if we could eat well for our mental health?
AI and Mental Health
With the surge in access to artificial intelligence (AI) comes some interesting questions about how it can be best utilized.