Personalized Concierge Therapy for Montana

Integrative Psychotherapy & Mind-Body Medicine

Even in Montana, where life can be vast but also demanding, you deserve expert mental health support that fits your lifestyle. I offer Expert EMDR and Integrative virtual Care for Discerning Clients, tailored to individuals and couples navigating stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and relationship challenges. Whether you’re in Bozeman, Missoula, Big Sky, paradise valley, or beyond, sessions are designed for flexibility, privacy, and meaningful impact. Experience direct access, extended or intensive sessions, and a holistic approach that supports your emotional well-being, resilience, and personal growth.\

As an experienced, fully credentialed psychotherapist, executive therapist, and EMDR specialist serving Bozeman and the greater Gallatin Valley, including Big Sky, Livingston, Big Sky and remote areas throughout Montana, I provide compassionate, non-judgmental, and highly skilled therapy for individuals and couples seeking a personalized, beyond-the-basics approach. My practice blends evidence-based and somatic modalities—including EMDR, IFS, Somatic Experiencing techniques, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, CBT, and mindfulness-informed neuroscience—creating a truly integrative experience. As a high-performing professional balancing complex responsibilities, sessions are designed to honor both the rhythm of your life and the spirit of Montana. This boutique Montana practice combines evidence-based and somatic modalities—including EMDR, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, psychoanalytic therapy, and mindfulness-informed neuroscience—to provide integrative care tailored to your unique personal and professional demands.

Understanding the Root of why you overfunction

High-achieving professionals in Montana often push beyond their limits without fully understanding why. Whether navigating the fast-paced demands of a Bozeman-based business, seasonal tourism ventures, or high-stakes decision-making, childhood conditioning, deep-seated fears of failure, or unconscious beliefs linking self-worth to productivity can drive overfunctioning. Many don’t realize that this relentless striving is often a trauma response—a survival strategy your nervous system has learned over time. Recognizing this brings relief: it’s not a flaw, it’s a response to past experiences.

In sessions designed for Montana professionals, we explore these patterns with insight and compassion, uncovering how they shape your work, relationships, and overall well-being. Understanding overfunctioning as a trauma response allows you to approach change with curiosity rather than self-judgment. Using a blend of evidence-based and somatic approaches—EMDR, Internal Family Systems, somatic techniques, and mindfulness-informed practices—you can regulate your nervous system, establish healthy boundaries, and cultivate resilience. The aim is to move beyond mere survival in high-pressure environments to thrive with clarity, balance, and peace. By addressing the root causes of overfunctioning, you reconnect with your inner calm, strengthen your relationships, and create sustainable habits that honor both your professional ambitions and personal fulfillment—whether in the boardroom, on the slopes, or at home amidst Montana’s wide-open landscapes.

Processing Trauma for High-Functioning Professionals

Even subtle or long-buried trauma can quietly affect performance, decision-making, relationships, and overall emotional wellbeing—especially for high-achieving professionals who are used to managing every detail and pushing through stress. In Montana, where life blends high-stakes careers with unique personal and environmental pressures, unresolved trauma can interfere with both personal satisfaction and professional effectiveness.

Using EMDR, trauma-informed cognitive techniques, and integrative psychotherapy, I guide clients through a carefully tailored process to safely release the past. Sessions focus on transforming the ways trauma shows up in your nervous system, thought patterns, and relational dynamics, so it no longer limits your ability to thrive. Whether you’re navigating demanding work responsibilities, seasonal lifestyle transitions, or complex personal dynamics, this work helps you reclaim emotional balance, mental clarity, and sustainable fulfillment—allowing you to operate at your highest level while experiencing genuine peace and presence in your life.

Strengthening relationships that have suffered because of overfunctioning

Overfunctioning often strains relationships at work and at home, creating tension, miscommunication, and resentment. Constantly taking on too much or trying to “hold everything together” can leave partners, family members, and colleagues feeling disconnected or unheard, and can reinforce feelings of isolation or frustration for you. Therapy focuses on identifying these patterns, understanding how overfunctioning damages trust and intimacy, and building strategies to communicate effectively, set healthy boundaries, and foster authentic connections. By addressing both the behavioral patterns and their emotional roots, you can show up fully in your relationships without the weight of perfectionism—strengthening bonds, deepening trust, and creating more sustainable, fulfilling connections.

Learn to Regulate the Nervous System for Sustainable Calm

For high-performing professionals and discerning clients in Montana, the pressures of demanding careers, public visibility, and complex personal lives can keep the nervous system in constant fight-or-flight. True rest may feel unfamiliar—or even risky—while overdrive becomes the default mode for survival and success. Through psychoanalytic psychotherapy, CBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR therapy, somatic therapy, and mindfulness-informed approaches, I guide clients in noticing and releasing tension held in the body. Somatic processing helps you track how stress, trauma, and overfunctioning manifest physically, while mindful interventions strengthen the capacity to pause, breathe, and reset—without guilt or fear.

Sessions are tailored to fit the pace and privacy needs of clients navigating high-impact responsibilities, whether in my Bozeman office, on a mindful walk along the Gallatin River, or via secure telehealth throughout Montana. By integrating the grounding energy of Montana’s landscapes with evidence-based mind-body strategies, this work reduces chronic stress, restores emotional regulation, and fosters a deep sense of safety. The result is sustainable calm, resilience, and the ability to fully engage in professional and personal life—without compromise, performance pressure, or the weight of overfunctioning.

Can I benefit from psychological counseling or coaching?

Clients often arrive during high-stress moments—navigating personal transitions or challenging situations, our work together provides practical tools to reduce traumatic experiences and memories, tame chronic stress, and restore secure attachment within yourself and your relationships. Couple therapy, marriage counseling and relationship therapy offers support for challenges intensified by travel schedules, high stress levels, perfectionism, substance reliance and burnout.

Statewide teletherapy ensures no Montanan is out of reach. All sessions are HIPAA-compliant, and many private insurance plans offer out-of-network reimbursement. Take the next step toward emotional vitality, stronger relationships, and a life aligned with Montana’s wide-open promise. Reach out today to schedule an appointment and experience why discerning clients trust Kimberly Seelbrede, LCSW, and Dr. John Christopher for expert trauma therapy, integrative counseling, and premier online psychotherapy across Big Sky Country.

*Integrative Psychotherapy & Mind-Body Medicine in Montana is In-Network with the following insurance plans: BCBS, Allegiance, Pacific Source, and Mountain Health Co-op. Please schedule using the link above.

Couple & Relationship Counseling For Montana

I offer virtual couples counseling, high-conflict coaching and online relationship therapy to individuals and couples across Bozeman, Big Sky, and throughout Montana. Whether you're seeking to deepen intimacy, repair a rupture, or gain clarity about your future together, online therapy creates a safe, accessible space for honest exploration and meaningful change. You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from relationship therapy—sometimes the desire for deeper connection, improved communication, or emotional safety is enough to begin.

Many of the couples I work with are navigating challenges such as parenting stress, infertility, blended family conflicts, career-related strain, unresolved trauma, anxiety, depression, and the impact of substance use. Others are working to recover from infidelity or betrayal and want support in addressing the underlying emotional wounds. No matter the circumstance, online therapy offers privacy, flexibility, and expert guidance that fits the rhythm of your busy life in Montana.

Integrating elements of Neurobiological, Internal Family System (IFS) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), my approach focuses on attachment, emotional safety, and helping both partners feel heard, understood, and supported. I don’t just treat the symptoms of relational distress—I look at the root causes, including personal history, trauma, nervous system responses, and unspoken fears or needs that may be impacting the dynamic. While our work centers on your relationship, it also honors the individuality of each partner and supports personal growth alongside relational healing.

My practice is inclusive of all relationship styles and identities. I welcome same-gender couples, gender-expansive partnerships, and those practicing ethical non-monogamy or polyamory. If you’re considering separation or divorce, I also offer guidance in navigating that process with clarity, compassion, and intention.

If you’re searching for online marriage counseling in Bozeman, virtual couples therapy in Big Sky, or relationship support anywhere in Montana, I’m here to help. Secure, HIPAA-compliant video sessions make it easy to access high-quality care from the comfort of your home—no matter where in the state you live. Reach out today to begin.

common concerns addressed in this virtual for Bozeman, Big Sky & Montana Couple Counseling Practice:

• High conflict divorce

• Betrayal (emotional or physical)

• Communication problems

• Difficulty getting important needs met within the relationship

• Challenges with intimacy

• Sexual concerns and sex therapy

• Transitions and difficult challenges

• Life-stage challenges

• Physical illness or mental health concerns impacting the relationship

• Unresolved trauma wounds 

• Values and relationship goals 

• Repeating problem patterns and dynamics

• Parenting challenges

• Divorce and separation

• Premarital counseling

expert EMDR Therapy for Montana

How does EMDR Therapy Work?

Research shows that traumatic memories are stored in the brain differently from other memories. During a traumatic event, the body’s fight-or-flight response kicks in, prioritizing immediate survival over processing the experience. This disrupts the brain’s natural information processing system, causing the trauma to be stored in a fragmented, disjointed way. As a result, painful emotions, sensations, thoughts, and images associated with the trauma may remain locked in the nervous system, reemerging as symptoms in the present. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy works by altering how the brain processes and stores these traumatic memories, reducing the distressing symptoms such as intrusive thoughts, emotional pain, and physical sensations tied to past experiences. Through the use of bilateral stimulation, like eye movements, EMDR helps reprocess these memories, allowing the brain to store them in a more adaptive, integrated way, ultimately leading to relief and healing.

Many of our clients have spent years in traditional talk therapy or CBT, making progress but still feeling stuck. They often describe EMDR as the breakthrough they’ve been searching for—finally providing the results needed to heal deeply and move forward. It’s one of my favorite modalities because it works. Often, clients are encouraged by family, friends, or other therapists to try EMDR when they’ve reached a point of frustration with other approaches. They feel like EMDR is their last hope to resolve lingering symptoms, and in my experience, it has been incredibly effective. We’ve had great success using EMDR both as a standalone treatment and as an integration with traditional talk therapy. When combined with other therapies like Somatic Experiencing, EMDR can supercharge healing, offering clients the comprehensive, lasting relief they’ve been searching for.

What follows are some symptoms that EMDR in Bozeman & Montana can address:

• Anxiety, fear, panic, worry

• Phobias

• Sadness and unresolved grief

• Dissociation and trauma resolution

• PTSD

• Recovering from emotional, physical, or sexual abuse

• Feeling “stuck”

• Feeling unworthy, undeserving, or unlovable

• Survivor of bullying

• Guilt and shame

• Traumatic medical experiences

• Traumatic accidents

• Terrifying memories

• Attachment wounds

• Self-defeating patterns or self-sabotage

• Addictions to substance or process addictions

• Creative blocks and performance problems 

Through EMDR therapy, we will use the counseling relationship as a safe place to access painful, traumatic memories that are stored deep within the brain’s neural pathways. After bringing these memories to the surface, we use bilateral brain stimulation techniques such as light tapping or eye movement to reprocess the painful memories. The goal is that these memories are no longer negatively “charged” for you and do not cause activation in the nervous system. Suffering is greatly decreased by using EMDR therapy.

Montana State University Counseling services

We work with MSU students who are struggling with adjustment, stress, anxiety, and depression, offering practical skills, CBT skills, and supportive therapy to students who struggle throughout the year. We have excellent resources to make necessary referrals for medication providers as needed. Our Bozeman counseling practice is dedicated to supporting Montana State University (MSU) students as they navigate the challenges of academic life, personal growth, and mental well-being. College life can be a time of immense transition, and many students experience stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, or issues related to identity, mental health, and overall life balance. Whether it’s adjusting to a new environment, managing academic pressures, dealing with homesickness, or confronting difficult personal circumstances, we are here to offer a compassionate, understanding, and tailored approach to support each student’s unique journey.

We offer a range of counseling services designed to meet the needs of MSU students, from individual therapy and stress management to relationship and life coaching. Our focus is on providing a safe space where students can explore their challenges and develop the tools to handle them effectively. For those struggling with anxiety, depression, or self-esteem issues, we use evidence-based therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help students identify and shift negative thought patterns, enabling them to regain control over their emotional well-being. Additionally, for students navigating relationship dynamics, whether with roommates, romantic partners, or family, we provide relationship counseling that focuses on communication, conflict resolution, and healthy connection.

Transitioning into college life can sometimes bring unresolved issues from the past to the surface. We recognize that MSU students often face stressors such as academic pressures, relationship changes, or family dynamics that can affect their mental health. Our counselors are skilled in working with students who need to process trauma, work through personal growth, or find balance in their busy lives. For students seeking clarity, we offer goal-setting and life coaching that helps them focus on their values and aspirations, allowing them to create a more fulfilling and focused college experience.

Our practice also values inclusivity and is committed to serving the diverse student body at MSU, including those who may be exploring their sexual identity, navigating mental health challenges, or dealing with cultural adjustments. Whether a student needs support with managing social anxiety, exploring career paths, or finding a healthier work-life balance, we are here to provide guidance and support. With our personalized, solution-focused approach, we help MSU students build resilience, foster self-compassion, and navigate their academic and personal challenges with confidence.