Jamey Ivey, LCPC

Jamey Ivey is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) based in Montana with more than 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical skills that help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and intimacy-related concerns. She helps clients notice strengths in their own stories and use those strengths to take small, steady steps toward change.

Her approach uses clear, skill-based methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions often include learning coping skills, practicing new ways to respond to strong emotions, and trying out different behaviors between meetings. The work is down-to-earth and action oriented, with room for gentle reflection.

Jamey also helps people dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. She supports those navigating separation or divorce, substance concerns, domestic violence history, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Her practice attends to everyday impacts of these struggles and to practical ways to manage them.

People can expect a respectful, encouraging tone in sessions. Jamey frames clients as experts on their lives and offers tools to expand options and choices. She aims to make progress feel achievable rather than overwhelming.

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How CBT and DBT Shape Online Sessions

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. Sessions often involve short exercises and homework to build different ways of thinking and behaving. DBT, dialectical behavior therapy, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships through concrete skills practice and step-by-step coaching.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether CBT, DBT, or a mix of methods fits best. That decision is based on the client’s goals, current challenges, and what feels most useful in day-to-day life.

The biography does not specify which online formats are offered, so confirm session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives by reducing travel and allowing meetings from convenient locations. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when time is limited, while video meetings support practicing skills with real-time feedback. Licensed professionals adapt pacing and homework to what works for each person, helping therapy fit into routines without promising a particular format.