Olivia Keiner

Cognitive Processing (CPT)

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a proven approach for healing from trauma and PTSD. I work with clients to gently explore how difficult experiences have shaped their thoughts and feelings about themselves, others, and the world. We explore negative “stuck points,” and build new ways of thinking, feelings and behaviors with compassion, and confidence. My approach is relatively structured but warm and supportive, helping you move through trauma at a pace that feels safe while making real, lasting progress.

Existential

In Existential therapy, I help explore life’s deeper questions, especially those that come up with grief and loss—identity, meaning, freedom, purpose, connection and mortality. We develop a space to reflect on what it means to live authentically, especially during times of anxiety, loss, transition, or uncertainty. Rather than focusing only on symptom reduction, I support in understanding lived experiences, clarifying values, and making intentional choices that align with a life desired.

Gestalt

In Gestalt therapy, we focus on helping build greater awareness of thoughts, emotions, and experiences in the present moment. We explore what is happening in the “here and now” to better understand patterns, needs, and relational dynamics. We work collaboratively and experientially, supporting in reconnecting, strengthening authenticity, and creating meaningful change.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps heal wounded “inner child” parts of ourselves that carry pain, shame, fear, or trauma from the past. In IFS, these vulnerable parts are called Exiles. My particular approach with IFS is working with stuck, blocked memories of our "inner child" with the use of guided relaxation sessions, where we re-parent, and hear that inner child at particular ages. Inner child work is a clinically grounded therapeutic approach that addresses the emotional needs of the younger developmental parts of the self that formed adaptive responses to inadequate or harmful early caregiving, and it isn’t the pop-psychology version that skeptics rightly question. The clinical version is supported by neurobiological evidence for the persistence of implicit emotional memory, the developmental research on early attachment, and the outcomes literature from schema therapy, Internal Family Systems, and ego-state therapy. It works precisely because those younger parts are not metaphors; they’re encoded in the body’s nervous system as real affective and behavioral patterns.

Psychodynamic

I take a psychodynamic and relational approach to therapy, meaning I pay close attention and sometimes draw attention to the past and present relationships which shape our inner worlds. We explore recurring patterns, emotional struggles, and the deeper needs underneath them. I believe that through a trusting therapeutic relationship, folks gain clarity, work through unresolved pain, and move toward lasting growth and wholeness.