About
The practice specializes in alleviating anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, difficult emotions, relationships, self-esteem, and overall self-development. They work with adult individuals, teens, children, and their parents in a variety of different ways that are tailored to meet one's own needs and/or goals. Their aim is to enhance the quality of life for those they work with by improving inter-personal relationships, facilitating healing processes, building emotional capacities, undoing old attachment wounds, or by developing the 'Self'. At A Guiding Path, they understand that starting this journey can be difficult, even scary at times, but they're here to help. They utilize highly integrative therapeutic modalities to forge authentic, safe, and corrective therapeutic relationships that promote their clients' innate ability to overcome, heal, and grow towards wholeness. They treat anxiety/stress, depression, trauma/ptsd, grief/loss, self-esteem/worth, difficult emotions, relational challenges, and other ways life can impact us. Their services include individual counseling, telemental health counseling, play therapy, DIR Floortime, and parenting consultation. They're located in Missoula, Montana, and service all of Western Montana from the Bitterroot, Potomac, and Flathead Valleys.
Insurance & payment
A Guiding Path accepts various insurance plans, including Montana Medicaid, Montana Healthy Kids, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MT, Allegiance, Cigna, Pacific Source, Optum, and First Choice Health/Aetna. Clients are responsible for their health plan's deductible or 'co-pay' which usually ranges between $0 to $30 per visit.
- Allegiance
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Medicaid
- Cigna
- Montana Health Co-op
- Optum
- PacificSource
- Presbyterian
- Providence
- TRICARE
- UnitedHealthcare
Listed fee: $140 per session, I accept insurance. Ask about sliding-scale fees if you're paying out of pocket.
Services & specialties
Individual Counseling
A Guiding Path offers individual counseling, including telemental health counseling, to help clients work through anxiety, depression, trauma, and other life challenges.
Play Therapy
Play therapy allows children (ages 2-12) to explore their world and express themselves freely in a safe environment, which encourages the use of imagination and an understanding & supportive 'other' to develop solutions and work through developmental, behavioral, or academic difficulties.
DIR Floortime
DIR Floortime is a therapy modality geared towards children impacted by Autism, emphasizing their developmental processes, emotional capacities, and regulative abilities to improve communication and grow social and inter-personal skill-sets.
Parenting Consultation
A Guiding Path offers parenting consultation to help parents support their children's development and address any challenges they may be facing.