Post Doctoral Resident
MT #5624
Interests & Expertise
Depression and anxiety disorders
Trauma
Identity issues
Interpersonal difficulties
Life transitions
Emotional coping difficulties
Sleep disorders
Challenges unique to military veterans
Challenges unique to LGBTQ+ identity
Challenges unique to older adults
Post Doctoral Resident
MT #5624
Aaron Stusser, PsyD is a postdoctoral psychology resident at Big Sky Psychological Consortium (BSPC). He enjoys providing a full range of psychological services to adults across the lifespan, including individual therapy and psychodiagnostic assessment. Dr. Stusser emphasizes a client’s unique history, personality structure, and interpersonal relationships in his psychodynamic and depth-oriented approach to diagnosis and treatment. Openness, collaboration, and transparency are core tenets of Dr. Stusser’s process.
Dr. Stusser obtained his doctoral training at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. He completed his APA-accredited predoctoral internship at the Montana VA Medical Center, where his clinical training focused on trauma treatment, geriatric care, psychodiagnostic assessment, and short-term outpatient psychotherapy. He has obtained additional training within university counseling, rural community mental health, and medical settings.
Licensed Psychologist, Director of Clinical Training
MT #338
Dr. Michele McKinnie is a licensed psychologist and co-founder of Big Sky Psychological Consortium. She has provided psychological services in Bozeman since 2002 and works with clients from adolescence through every stage of adulthood.
Dr. McKinnie offers depth-oriented psychotherapy informed by relational psychodynamic, interpersonal and attachment-based theories. Her clinical experience includes depression, anxiety, grief, life transitions, identity concerns, interpersonal difficulties, emotional coping and personality disorders.
In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. McKinnie directs the Consortium’s postdoctoral training program and provides collaborative clinical supervision to developing psychologists.