About Kurt
Kurt Ruffley is a licensed clinical professional counselor who offers straightforward, practical therapy for people coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. He presents himself in a calm, down-to-earth way and focuses on clear steps people can use in daily life. Kurt holds an LCPC and has four years of clinical experience in Montana.
He favors short-term tools and skills that can reduce overwhelm. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises to help regulate strong feelings.
Background and approach
He also uses cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused methods to address unhelpful thoughts and set realistic goals. Kurt describes his style as empathetic and direct. He aims to make sessions feel focused and useful, not confusing.
He works with parents who are dealing with parenting stress and with people facing family-of-origin issues or relationship communication problems. He has additional experience helping people affected by chronic illness or pain, addiction, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and trauma related to domestic violence or other harm.
Kurt pays attention to how multiple issues interact, such as co-morbidity or caregiver stress, so plans reflect the whole picture. Kurt provides online options including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. People interested in starting a subscription-based therapy plan complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to fit their needs.
Online therapy methods and what they do
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or depression. It teaches practical strategies for testing thoughts, changing behaviors, and reducing symptoms over weeks or months.Mindfulness therapy helps people notice and tolerate strong emotions without reacting automatically. It uses simple attention and breathing practices to build emotional awareness and reduce stress in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a process. Kurt works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and he adjusts plans as progress is made. The collaboration helps shape realistic steps and clear targets for change.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging fits people who prefer writing or short updates. These options can make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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