Counseling for Kids & Teens
Serving kids & teens in Bozeman and across Montana
We Get You.
Kids have a lot to deal with in their worlds, and often, that stress comes out in difficult behavior. Our counselors have cutting edge training for kids age 4-18 who need support healing from trauma or learning more functional behaviors so that your family can thrive. ​
Sound Familiar?
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You feel burned out parenting a child you don't understand
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Your child engages in difficult behaviors that you don't know how to manage
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Your teen is experiencing feelings or friends that are stressful and overwhelming
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Your child has experienced trauma
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Your child struggles to soothe themselves
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Your family feels like it is falling apart
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You crave a deep connection with or healing for your child
Sound Familiar?
Your child engages in difficult behaviors that you don't know how to manage. Or your teen is experiencing feelings or friends that are stressful and overwhelming. Maybe your child has experienced trauma or struggles to soothe themselves through anxious worries.
You feel burned out parenting a child you don't understand and your family feels like it is falling apart.
You crave a deep connection with or healing for your child, but don't know where to begin. We do. And we're eager to share.
Our Approach
Counselors with Illuminate will help you understand the impact of relationships and development on your child's current functioning and behaviors. We will then work individually with your child, parent-child pair, or family grouping to identify new strategies for communication, nurture, coping, processing, and soothing.
The Illuminators
Lauren Boland, LCSW
With Lauren, your teen will experience a caring adult who takes them seriously, but finds plenty of time for play. Lauren taps into your teens' mind-body wisdom, encourages healthy relationships, and guides the learning of emotion regulation and resilience building.
Becky Johnston, SWLC
Becky's approach with tweens and teens is playful, curious, and deeply sensitive. Becky encourages self exploration through trauma-informed CBT, healthy relationship and coping skill development, and confident empowerment as your child moves into independence.
Ellerey Jorgensen, LCPC
When Ellie works with kids ages 4-12, she prioritizes parents' understanding meaning of behavior and feelings while elevating healing relational patterns and trauma. Ellie leans into play, mindfulness and attachment strategies to invite healthier functioning.
How Counseling Will Help Your Child
Trauma Expertise
A lot has changed in the mental health field around how best to treat trauma. Your child will will benefit from more effective and less distressing therapy with our counselors, who deploy research-based trauma strategies to support your child's healing and thriving.
Mind - Body Integration
Your child's healing process should be deep and enduring, which we support through mind-body integrative approaches. Application of play, mindfulness, and somatic therapies ensure this critical connectivity for your child's long-term health.
Big Picture Approach
Your while family is impacted by the health of each of its members. We are resources trained to support the understanding of your kids and teens behaviors and emotions. We work with the adults in the family and identify the "root" cause for long-lasting impact.
Healthy Counselors
You benefit from our commitment to healthy and expertly trained counselors. Our relational foundation extends all the way to how our counselors feel as professionals and people. We share ideas, training, and uplift so that we can show up as our best selves for you!