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.
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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.
Exploring Attachment Styles in Couples: Understanding Love and Relationships
Love and relationships are a complex, beautiful, and an integral part of our lives. They can be a source of joy, fulfillment, and support but they can also be a source of confusion and pain.
Skills Review: Distress Tolerance and TIP/TIPP
Have you ever felt instances of panic or distress coming on and wish you could “snap” yourself out of it? Although there is no switch we can simply turn off in these instances, there are some tools we can utilize to try and help ease these reactions as quickly as possible.
How to Interact with Someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder
People with Narcissist Personality Disorder (NPD) may be unable to see its signs and symptoms in themselves.
Boundaries
Boundaries are like invisible fences that can help protect your emotional and mental well-being.
Understanding Roles in a Blended Family
When it comes to blending families, whether it be a heterosexual or same-sex relationship, understanding roles and creating bonds when children are involved can be challenging.
When Spirituality and Mental Health Collide
Today, many people are finding comfort and support in dedicating time to care for their mental health. One thing that can be missing at times when caring for one’s mental health is spirituality.