Rev. Elizabeth Hector

Rev. Elizabeth Hector brings a compassionate, client-centered approach to counseling. She combines pastoral experience with clinical practice to support people facing grief, trauma, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns. Elizabeth uses clear language and a gentle style to help people find steadiness during hard times.

Elizabeth has 13 years of clinical experience and spent many years in pastoral ministry before social work school. She has worked with a wide range of ages and life stages, from youth settings to people coping with chronic medical problems and hospice issues. Her background emphasizes acceptance of gender and sexual diversity.

Her work often focuses on trauma, mood disorders, and challenges that overlap with substance use. She draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered listening to help people reduce distress and build coping skills. Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies are used when they fit a person's needs.

Elizabeth names caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and the strain of parenting as common concerns she helps people address. She also supports people with neurodiversity, aging-related stress, and relationship or intimacy issues. Practical steps and short-term strategies are balanced with space for deeper processing when needed.

People who work with Elizabeth can expect straightforward talk, paced to their comfort. She aims to help clients identify goals, try small changes, and regain a sense of control when life feels chaotic.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are; it emphasizes empathy, understanding, and collaborating on goals so people feel heard and supported. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical steps to reduce distress and build new habits; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past, then recommend trying approaches that fit the situation. That choice is revisited over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Confirm current session formats before booking since specific options are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time for people managing caregiving or health issues. It can also allow people to work with a Montana-based licensed social worker from other locations, including internationally, when scheduling aligns with both parties.