Counseling in Bozeman, MT

Rachael, a Tennessee native who has called Montana home for nearly two decades, discovered her passion for working with couples shortly after graduating. With a keen understanding of attachment science, she found a modality (EFT) that genuinely works in helping individuals and couples heal their attachment distress. Her heart goes out to those who often feel misunderstood in their relationships, and she's equally passionate about guiding new and seasoned therapists in harnessing the power of attachment systems. Rachael's personal journey includes time on the therapy couch with her husband Adam, making her a firm believer and dedicated consumer of the transformative work she offers.

Clair’s passion lies in joining individuals and couples in their journey of discovering the answers to some of life’s big questions: who am I, where do I come from, and who do I want to become? She strongly believes that humans are wired for relationships, and therefore, relationships are a crucial tool for exploring these questions. Clair strives to offer a genuine, empathetic, and curious presence, utilizing the therapeutic relationship with her clients to create a safe place where vulnerability can flourish. As clients explore their inner world in the safety of the counseling relationship, they develop the skills and tools they need to improve their world outside of counseling, leading to healing from the past and hope for the journey ahead.
Clair earned her BS in Secondary Social Studies Education from University of Colorado - Boulder and is currently pursuing her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Colorado Christian University. Clair’s extensive background in mentoring young adults has given her the unique opportunity to witness the profound transformation that can happen in this unique season when life decisions are made from a place of pursuing meaning and purpose.
In her free time, Clair enjoys spending time with her husband and their friends outdoors, usually at their favorite secret spots only accessible by 4x4 trails or long snowmobile rides. She loves to be active, so she’s often on the move – riding dirt bikes or mountain bikes, snowboarding, hiking, or just pushing herself to the limit in a workout class. When she’s not out and about, she loves to curl up with a good book or tend her vegetable garden.

Claire is passionate about supporting individuals and couples through life’s challenges by creating a warm and empathetic space. She understands that starting therapy can feel intimidating and emphasizes a collaborative, client-centered approach. Claire works to help clients gain insight, identify unhelpful patterns, and build more secure, connected relationships.
 

Claire is especially drawn to relationship work and feels deeply honored to walk alongside clients as they move toward healing and growth. She has a head start in this work as she has worked as a case manager for teens and their families.
 

After earning her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Montana, Claire joined the team at Little Bear Counseling. She feels grateful to call Montana home. Outside of the counseling room, she finds joy riding her bike, lounging in the sun, and soaking in the slower pace of the mountains.

Liz grew up in Wyoming, where she earned her BA from the University of Wyoming in Psychology and Sociology, and moved to Bozeman a few years ago after finishing graduate school at the University of Utah. Liz has long worked with people across the age span, supporting children, adolescents, and families in various positions in the past decade. Working with families is a great joy in her life, and she is excited to have the opportunity to train in EFT to better support families in their pursuit of health and happiness. She is also looking forward to bringing these skills to individual and couples work! Liz loves to work mindfulness into sessions to support connection to our emotions while staying grounded and present. 

During her free time, Liz can be found hanging out with her partner and their black lab Mayhem (who very much lives up to her name). Liz grew up spending as much time as possible outside, so it’s likely that if she isn’t at work, she is out skiing, running, or fly fishing. 

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Emma is a counseling intern pursuing her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Antioch University, where she is also earning a Trauma Counseling certificate. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Montana State University, but during her undergraduate years, she discovered her true passion was not in lesson plans, but in supporting the emotional well-being of others. Her personal experiences with therapy and mental health challenges inspired her belief that seeking help does not mean you are broken, but rather that you are hurt and deserving of nurturing and care.

Emma is especially drawn to working with individuals and couples navigating life transitions, grief, trauma, and relational challenges. She is developing a trauma-informed and attachment-based approach and is eager to continue learning and integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy techniques to help clients build safety, explore vulnerability, and move toward more secure, connected relationships.

An introvert at heart, Emma prioritizes opportunities for self-care and meaningful downtime. In the summer, you’ll often find her hiking or paddleboarding in Hyalite; in the winter, she happily hibernates with a good show, hot beverage, and a puzzle. Year-round, she loves spending quality time with her partner and her beloved rescue mutt, Milo.

Angelique is a native of southwest Montana. Through her life experiences and challenges, she developed a passion to support and empower individuals, couples and families in our community, which led her to continue her education to become a therapist. She completed her B.S. in Family and Consumer Science at Montana State University, Bozeman and earned her Master of Social Work at Walla Walla University, Billings. As a Clinical Social Worker, she  has experience in therapy, as well as, advocating for clients and connecting them to resources.
She understands that seeking therapy can seem a bit intimidating and taboo to many. She hopes to put her clients at ease through building a warm, supportive and low pressure environment, where clients feel comfortable working together.  As a team, she aims to invite healing and security into clients' personal lives, marriages, and relationships. 
When Angelique is not working, she enjoys spending quality time with her husband, children, grandchildren and extended family. She loves animals, especially dogs and pigs, though she currently do not have any. She also enjoys spending time outdoors camping, trying to garden, floating the river, riding side by sides, riding motorcycles and traveling.

MacLean practices out of the belief that humans were created to be relational, thus relationships serve potential for challenge and growth. She believes in empowering clients to explore the ways trauma affects our relationships and personal narrative of our present lives. MacLean finds great value in creating a space for clients to strive towards deeper relational connectedness.

MacLean graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BS in Human Development and Family Sciences. She received her Masters in Social Work at Texas State University. She has experience in the intersection of social work in various fields including schools, legal systems and inpatient acute care.

As an experiential learner and teacher, MacLean explored incorporating variety in methods for clients to process during their session such as art-based activities, mindfulness and time in nature. This eventually led MacLean to Bozeman for a unique role providing equine assisted therapy to individuals and families.

She is grateful to have space within Little Bear Counseling to expand her knowledge in providing attachment based therapy in a more traditional office setting.

MacLean grew up in small town Ohio and after attending school in Texas decided to return north. She loves to spend her time outdoors biking, swimming and running with her dog.

Allie grew up in Vermont and moved to Montana in 2009 to attend Montana State University in search for new opportunities and bigger mountains.

She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Community Health and ended up working in the fitness industry as a Wellness Coach, Group Exercise Instructor, and Cancer Exercise Specialist. She was also a licensed Real Estate agent at this time.

Once COVID hit, she realized that she loved the fitness aspect of her career but worried that it could be unreliable in the long term. She also learned that Real Estate didn’t feel like a good fit for what she hoped for in a career. The path into counseling seemed like a natural one after years of feeling lost post-college. Allie wants people to know that life can get tough and our minds can go to incredibly dark places but that, with the right help, we all have the power within ourselves to recover.

Outside of therapy, Allie enjoys spending time with her husband, camping, running, learning to play tennis, hiking, attempting to plant gardens, spending time with friends, trying any weird or normal workout she can find, and spending as much time as possible with her three amazing, beautiful, various sized, and perfect dogs.

​Eileen grew up in Minnesota, where she earned her Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Bethel University in 2020. She relocated to Bozeman four years ago with her partner where she shortly began working on her Masters degree in Trauma-informed clinical social work. She graduated from her Masters program in April of 2023. 

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She has worked extensively with youth, adolescents, and families in Minnesota and Montana providing art and play based therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and nervous system work with an emphasis in polyvagal theory. She is excited to grow and train using EFT and provide support to clients through this therapeutic lens. 

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She enjoys bringing humor and laughter into her work as it allows for clients to feel more at ease, build a connection, and find healing. She understands that starting therapy can be daunting and scary, but invites clients to ask questions and be curious about the therapeutic process. She views therapy as a time to support her clients and help them develop new coping skills and tools. She is looking forward to building connections with her clients and providing them a space where their voices can be heard and uplifted, can be seen, and they can be understood. 

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When not working, Eileen can be found hanging out with her partner and their dog, Maisy, in the great outdoors. She enjoys hiking and running in the mountains, being out in the sun, and spending time with friends and family.

She also participates heavily in weightlifting and Crossfit most evenings. She enjoys engaging in Crossfit competitions, developing strength with her lifts, and pushing herself to new athletic heights.

Taylor is passionate about helping clients seek greater authenticity and alignment between their life and their values. She believes that meaningful and vulnerable connection with others makes life richer and more fulfilling and aims to help clients pursue this type of connection. Taylor seeks to deeply understand clients' history, values, thought-patterns, and goals to best support the ways they want to grow. She views counseling as a place to reimagine our worldviews and sense of self, identify the stories we’ve been telling ourselves and replace them with ones that better serve us, validate our normal responses to broken systems we are living in, and set genuine intentions for our lives. Taylor knows firsthand the life-changing impact that counseling can have, and is excited to participate in this type of change with her clients.

Taylor grew up in the U.S. Virgin Islands and completed her Bachelor's in Psychology at Harvard College. After brief stints in the Peace Corps and the corporate world, Taylor realized that she was drawn to the counseling field because of its intentionality and focus on people. She is currently pursuing her Master's in Marriage, Couples, & Family Counseling at Montana State University and is grateful to be interning at Little Bear Counseling.

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As a local Montanan who grew up in Missoula, Andrea feels deeply connected to the people and communities of this state. She earned her Bachelor’s in Applied Psychology from Montana State University and completed her Master of Social Work through the University of Montana.

Since her graduation in 2019, Andrea has had the privilege of supporting children, teens, parents, and families through her work in providing local school-based social services, which included parent education and coaching, as well as fostering opportunities for youth mentorship.
 

Through this work, she has witnessed the transformative power that positive, caring
relationships have in helping us navigate life’s challenges. Andrea strives to create a space that feels welcoming and collaborative, where clients feel empowered to challenge their negative cycle and heal through connection.

When she’s not at Little Bear, you can find Andrea enjoying Montana’s abundant outdoor opportunities. Her favorites are cross-country skiing, fishing, and gravel biking. She also enjoys spending quality time at home with her partner and their cats, Louis and Hugh, trying out new recipes, and sewing her dream wardrobe!

A Montana native, Kayla grew up in Bozeman and graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She is currently pursuing a master’s in clinical mental health counseling, with an emphasis in working with children and adolescents from Northwestern University.

Through her teaching and life experiences she has developed a passion for working children, families, and individuals with a person-forward approach. Kayla practices from a developmental perspective, understanding that each phase of life is unique.

She aims to create a safe and supportive environment from which to empower her clients to overcome life transitions, improve relationships, and realize their full potential. She is excited to learn more about utilizing EFT and attachment work in her practice.

In her free time, Kayla enjoys spending time with her husband and their dog. In the winter, part of her time is spent teaching skiing at Big Sky, and training and supporting other instructors. On hot days, she loves to be near any type of water, whether it be rafting on the river, or swimming in mountain lakes. She also enjoys gardening and is always up for an adventure!

Aubrie is a Missouri native who has called Bozeman home for quite some time now. She earned her B.S. from Saint Mary’s University in Biology and Psychology and quickly moved to Bozeman where she completed graduate school at Capella University. Aubrie completed her internship here at Little Bear where she was trained and fell in love with Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). While Aubrie is a recent Master's graduate of counseling, Aubrie has a wealth of experience helping individuals navigate life's challenges.

Currently, Aubrie holds roles at both Little Bear and Bozeman Health, serving as an inpatient social work case manager. Her professional experience spans advocacy, community education, counseling, and program development. She has specialized in person and family-centered services within trauma-informed systems, focusing on assessments, safety communications, and intervention facilitation.

In her therapeutic practice, Aubrie aims to create an open, safe, and collaborative environment where clients feel valued and understood. She brings humor and a laid-back approach to the therapeutic space and understands how hard simply walking through the door can be.

During her free time, Aubrie can be found hanging out with her partner on the pickleball courts, ski hill, or in the mountains enjoying all the outdoors have to offer. As a former NCAA colligate soccer player Aubrie has a passion for sports and sharing the game with others. She loves to travel and aims to spend as much time as possible with friends and family along the way.

Johanna completed the Masters in Counseling program, deeply rooted in humanistic principles, through Saybrook University in 2024 with a specialization in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.  Her life trajectory has spanned from growing up in rural, upstate NY, to exploring young adult years in the Pacific Northwest.  

She now calls Montana home, having relocated with her partner who longed to return to the Big Sky horizons of their youth.  She has experience in a variety of settings including community mental health, crisis services, support groups, and individual therapy for adults.

Johanna honors the complexity involved in commitment to personal growth, and she is grateful to welcome and walk with you toward greater self-awareness, sense of freedom, and overall empowerment.  She is inspired to work in collaboration with folks toward their unique, intuitive goals, while grounded in a person-centered, strengths-based perspective, always holding special consideration and respect for each person’s multifaceted social and cultural identities. 

Her adaptive approach is warm and holistic, and may draw from practices centered in compassionate parts work, mindful consideration of factors involved in creating and sustaining narratives, and trauma-informed somatic inquiry. 

She is eager to expand her working knowledge of Emotionally-Focused Therapy in engaging with the wisdom and experience at Little Bear.  She looks forward to working together with creative curiosity to notice patterns, enhance self-compassion, and strengthen your confidence in reauthoring your life.

Outside of her therapeutic endeavors, Johanna may be found practicing or enthusiastically sharing her embodied knowledge of yoga- a devoted student of many years, lending a hand around the kitchen at her partner’s well-loved café, or meandering through the prairie with her spirited, silly husky pup.

Safe space. Real change. Honest connection.

I help individuals and couples who feel stuck, whether that’s in a painful relationship
dynamic, a cycle of addiction, or a life that no longer feels like their own. My goal is to create a space where you can untangle those patterns, better understand yourself and your needs, and move toward deeper connection and clarity.

Clients often tell me they feel safe to show up fully with me–messy, vulnerable, and real. I bring not only clinical training but deep respect for the courage it takes to begin this work.

Therapy with me is never about judgment; it’s about finding a path forward that’s rooted in honesty, care, and emotional resilience.

I genuinely love what I do, and starting a new career has been one of the best midlife
decisions I’ve made. When I’m not in the therapy room, you can usually find me out
exploring with my dogs and spending time with my family. I have a deep love for rivers and the peace they bring. I’m always working my way through a good book (or three). Whether it’s floating a river, getting lost in a story, or simply being with the people I care about, I believe in making space for joy and connection in everyday life.