About
Hi, I’m Sasha
I’m so happy you’re here, and I can’t wait to share with you how I help women reach their personal transformation goals, how I’ve helped them in discovering meaning in their lives, as well as healing from their emotional wounds. All while embodying the feeling of Being: more connected, safe, and attuned with one self.
I engage my client’s with mindfulness, and brain-based approaches that create not only safety, but also allow for natural curiosity about our inner world and “knowings”. I use humor, metaphor, and creativity in sessions with my clients, and love having an organic process in therapy, yet I will prioritize focus on your goals throughout our journey together.
So how does this look and how is it different from traditional talk therapy? Well, Instead of just talking about our symptoms, and looking for solutions ( trying to counteract symptoms with positive behaviors or coping skills), I dive deeper with my clients into their life experiences, slowing it down a little, as if focusing or zooming into a moment into a pastime.
As we do this, we will learn to not only experience our emotions safely, but also learn to listen to ourselves in new ways, in order to release our shame, guilt or anxieties surrounding our present issues and our past experiences that may have got us into therapy.
I support my clients in identifying and releasing long-held emotions, healing from them, and making new meaning from their deep, impactful experiences.
I belive that you can find more meaning in life, and improve your relationships.
Here’s the good news: this isn’t always a long-term process, nor does it require years and years of therapy.
How I work
My approach includes both:
bottom-up
(Sensations/mind-body AWARENESS)
+
top-down
(Thinking/reflecting)
processes.
Sasha Krotova, LCSW
Certified Brainspotting Practitioner
My Core Gift
is helping others experience playful curiosity.
I give it to them by lightening the mood, creating safe spaces to be deeply immersed in experience, and paving paths towards more connection with the world around them.
Outside of my professional endeavors, I find joy in the little things. Literally. Anything small and cute. I get lost in my creative pursuits, through spontaneous travel, foraging, and trying to soak up all the natural beauty Montana has to offer. I also collect an ungodly amount of plants.
I share adventures with my therapy dog, Alpha, through hiking, paddleboarding, snowshoeing, and shed hunting. I take pride in supporting my niece at her swimming competitions and spending time with my family.
“I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
-John O'Donohue
Licensed Clinical Social Worker in MONTANA & IDAHO
Certified Brainspotting Practitioner
Pacific Counseling and Trauma Center
Certified Clinical Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist
The Wellness Institute
Core Gift Discovery Master Facilitator
Core Gift Institute
Certified Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Practitioner
HeartMath Institute
Transpersonal Coach
The Wellness Institute
Clinical Supervisor
Advance Hope Kalispell, MT
Qualifications
Other Trainings:
Coherence Therapy
Coherence Psychology Institute
Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
Mindsight Institute
Brainspotting Expansion
Pacific Counseling and Trauma Center
Reiki I & II
Inner Peace Reiki
Areas of Interest:
Dogs