Ann Szalda-Petree

Therapist, Musician, Writer, Podcaster

  • Let’s start here.

    I’m a psychotherapist living in Missoula, Montana. I’m licensed in a lot of states: Montana, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Alaska. These licenses are important to me – they give me freedom to see clients in all of these places. I used to be a college professor. I retired from that profession exactly a year ago…

  • Attachment

    I’m having coffee and thinking about particular clients. Some might say that’s bad boundaries and I suppose that could be right, but before I get going on this post I want to say that I have very firm boundaries that in my opinion are excellent. There is very little overlap between my clients’ lives and…

  • Eating

    I just got 3 bags of snack lentils – yes, that’s a thing. They are cooked in a way that makes them crunchy like a chip, and massively filling. They are still very little because they are lentils – so you can eat them one at a time or by the spoonful. It’s weird, like…

  • Motivation During Depression

    I got a new book. It’s a well known idea, almost a joke, that therapists love new books We both love and hate books because our clients love books, read them, then take what they say and do that thing even though we’ve been avoiding telling them to do that thing for months because we…

  • Earning the Rockies by Robert D. Kaplan

    EARNING THE ROCKIES  How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World  By Robert D. Kaplan  201 pp. Random House. $27. Hello. I’m Ann Szalda-Petree and this is The Book Review Radio Show from Missoula, MT, produced by KFGM Missoula Community Radio and Szalda-Petree Productions.  Today I review Robert D.Kaplan’s 2017 book titled “Earning the Rockies: How Geography…

  • Famous Allen

    https://vimeo.com/215959060/recommended

  • Creeping Oregon grape

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  • Early blue violet

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  • Common death camus

  • Wild flowers

    Fairyslipper Low Larkspur 

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