Anxiety, Trauma & Relationship Therapist in Missoula, MT

Sydney specializes in helping adults and young adults navigate anxiety, trauma, relationship wounds, low self-worth, emotional overwhelm, and difficult life experiences using Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) and attachment-based approaches.

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Seeking counseling is a deeply personal and courageous step, and Sydney believes therapy should feel collaborative, emotionally safe, and grounded in genuine human connection. Her work focuses on helping clients better understand their emotions, relationship patterns, and internal experiences with compassion and curiosity rather than shame or self-criticism.

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Sydney believes emotions carry important information about our needs, relationships, and lived experiences. When people experience trauma, neglect, painful relationships, or emotional harm, it can become difficult to trust themselves or feel securely connected to others. Through therapy, she helps clients identify old emotional and relational patterns, understand where those patterns developed, and begin building healthier ways of relating to themselves and the people around them.

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Sydney frequently helps clients navigate:

• anxiety and chronic stress

• trauma and histories of abuse

• painful family or relationship dynamics

• self-worth and identity struggles

• loneliness and emotional disconnection

• emotional overwhelm and burnout

 

Sydney practices from an identity-affirming and trauma-informed perspective and welcomes clients of all backgrounds, genders, sexualities, ethnicities, races, body sizes, and abilities. She believes all people deserve compassionate, respectful, and meaningful support.

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Before becoming a therapist, Sydney worked in education and youth development roles supporting children, adolescents, and families in both classroom and community settings. Her background as a paraeducator and youth development coordinator continues to inform her collaborative, relational, and emotionally attuned approach to therapy.

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Sydney earned her Master’s degree in Counselor Education from the University of Montana and has training in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), attachment-based therapy, trauma-informed care, emotional processing, risk assessment, and multicultural counseling.