Stress Therapy in Bozeman
Support for Overwhelm, Burnout, and Emotional Strain Through Connection and Regulation
What Is Stress Therapy?
Stress therapy helps you understand and reduce the emotional, psychological, and physical impact of chronic stress. At Bozeman Therapy & Counseling, we use attachment-based, evidence-informed approaches—including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)—to help you move from overwhelm into clarity and regulation.
Stress often shows up when the nervous system has been working far too hard for far too long. Our therapists help you slow down, understand what your stress is signaling, and build the emotional and relational support needed to feel grounded again.
We work with children, teens, adults, and families. Whether your stress is tied to work, school, relationships, parenting, burnout, or unresolved emotional patterns, therapy offers a safe place to reconnect with yourself and regain balance.
How Stress Therapy Can Help
Chronic stress affects every layer of your life—your mood, relationships, capacity to cope, and even your sense of self. With the support of a trained therapist, stress therapy can help you:
Understand what your stress is trying to communicate
Reduce nervous system overwhelm and reactivity
Build emotional resilience and healthier coping strategies
Improve focus, energy, and the ability to make decisions
Strengthen your self-worth and sense of internal safety
Improve relationships impacted by irritability or withdrawal
Interrupt patterns that keep stress cycling in your life
Stress Therapy for Children, Teens, and Families
Children and teens often experience stress through behavior, school challenges, irritability, or emotional shutdown. Our child and family specialists offer play therapy, early intervention, and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) to help young people feel understood and supported.
Parents gain tools to respond to their child’s emotional needs, reduce conflict, and strengthen co-regulation at home. Together, families learn to navigate stress as a team rather than allowing it to create disconnection.
Stress Therapy for Adults and College Students
Adults and college students often become overwhelmed by the pressure to manage everything alone. Stress may show up as burnout, emotional exhaustion, irritability, people-pleasing, shutdown, or difficulty balancing relationships and responsibilities.
We offer individual therapy both online across Montana and in person in Bozeman, helping adults:
Slow down the internal pressure
Understand the attachment patterns behind stress responses
Rebuild emotional capacity
Learn regulation tools rooted in nervous system science
Strengthen self-compassion instead of self-criticism
Our Approach to Stress Therapy
Each person’s stress story is unique. Our therapists tailor treatment using a combination of:
Attachment-Based Therapy
Understanding how past relationships shape your stress responses and what helps you feel emotionally safe today.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT/EFIT/EFFT)
Building emotional regulation, increasing internal safety, and improving connection with the important people in your life.
Play & Child-Centered Interventions
Supporting children’s emotional expression and helping them process stress through developmentally appropriate methods.
IFS & Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring protective parts, unconscious patterns, and deeper emotional needs driving stress and burnout.
Meet Our Stress Therapists
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Kelsie Ortiz, PCLC
Kelsie supports adults and college students experiencing high stress, burnout, and emotional overwhelm. Blending EFT and emotion-focused work, she helps clients understand their stress patterns, regulate their nervous system, strengthen self-compassion, and build healthier relational dynamics.
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Sarah Loux, LCPC
Sarah works with adults navigating chronic stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and internal pressure. Through EFT, IFS, and psychodynamic therapy, she helps clients explore protective parts, address attachment-based stress responses, and develop resilience and emotional grounding.
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Sarah Marsh, SWLC
Sarah supports children, adolescents, and families coping with stress at home, school, or through transitions. Using child-centered play therapy, developmental intervention, and EFFT, she helps young people regulate emotions while guiding parents in creating calm, connected family systems.