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Fathers with PTSD was founded by Travis Whitlock as a platform for fathers, uncles, cousins, and brothers who have overcome traumatic experiences and found a sense of balance in their lives, empowering others to do the same. Through his resilience, he is also able to advocate for his daughter who has autism.
Please join us Ambre’s Bridge and Best Curve as we host Fathers with PTSD March 16th at the VFW in Great Falls.
We have some great new additions to the Ambre’s Bridge family. Emily and Justin recently joined as students working on their Masters in Clinical Social Work, currently learning by doing. We have the privilege and benefit of having them intern at our location. Justin is a veteran with a lot of experience in law enforcement and youth services. He also has been a great advocate and resource in the human trafficking work in our community. Emily has been working in the hospital as a patient advocate aligning patients and families with services. Justin and Emily are bringing their experiences and training to Ambre’s Bridge to support and advance our already very important and long-reaching work. More to come!
Life is full of changes. Development is a evolutionary journey with its ebbs and flows. When we bring on a new clinician it changes the nature and experience of the team. We have had the pleasure of working with Rebecca White as she blessed our practice, our clients, and our community with her gate keeping and advocacy. She is in the process of developing herself, preparing to welcome a new addition to her family. Thank you again Rebecca for all your hard work and advocacy.
Formed in December 2017, Ambre’s Bridge Counseling and Consulting is the result of years of human evolution and growth, along with great suffering and disappointment in the condition of our health and mental health care system. While there are so many great resources and programs created within our community, our country, and even the world, these are full of “gaps” as well as, delays in the incorporation and application of cutting edge, science and research that is part of the evolutionary process of the nature of the science we apply in our work as practitioners and advocates.
The gaps in the service system resulted in the tragic, painful and horrible quality of life and ultimate death of my sister, Ambre, at the age of 33. There are no words to fully process this experience, especially as a practitioner in the field who truly believes in the science. Needless to say, my answer to this was the creation of Ambre’s Bridge Counseling and Consulting. The mission and goal of Ambre’s Bridge is to bridge the gap in the service system, as well as, apply the most up-to-date in cutting edge resources, clinical interventions, and psychoeducation available in today’s research. This is also to be done in collaboration with all service providers, resources, and other members within the community that have contact with our clients and their family.
Just as taking a child outside of the family, attempting to do treatment and then plugging them back into the family is not as effective as caring for the whole family system with the child within that system, so is it with the community in the community resources and the families that are receiving the services. applying a Systems-based approach with the innovative and cutting edge science of Neuroscience and Neurobiology in mental health and the evolution of a process of seeing mental health related issues as being physical and not only psychological is how we will create the opportunity for healing. In addition to providing good clinical care for children, individuals, couples, and families, Ambres Bridge’s goal is to create an atmosphere for other resources and services and collaboration with the services. These services include collaborating and receiving beneficial information, knowledge, understanding, support, with the added benefit of linking our clients and utilizing warm handoffs, as well as case consultation.
Early intervention doesn’t start with going to a doctor's office or even a therapist office. I believe early intervention starts in the home with parents, and in the school with teachers and daycare providers. These are the people who are very significant stakeholders in the lives of these children. The more we empower them and equip them with the skills and support to properly provide the care, the more we will strengthen the resiliency and future capacity of the children they care for.
We are growing! Big changes have happened at Ambre’s Bridge lately. Lauren has joined as a student intern and Cara is a full time clinician. Linda is as busy as ever scheduling telehealth meetings and adding clients to the schedule. The office has had a COVID-19 cleaning and we can’t wait to see you in person again. We plan to be doing in office therapy JUNE 1.
We had our grand opening on Monday, April 30th! What a great turn-out, thank you to all that celebrated with us, and those who sent their best wishes. Special thank you to Aaron Hazel for the creation of the piece of art I had commissioned specifically for Ambre's Bridge and unveiled at the event. We are officially open for new business - call to schedule an appointment today!
