Licensed to practice in California and accepts 40 insurances. Specializes in First Responders/Healthcare Workers, Recent Hospitalization, Trauma and PTSD and 9 more.
I am a compassionate, trauma-informed therapist supporting individuals navigating trauma, crisis, addiction, anxiety, life transitions, and unresolved conflict. I work with those who feel overlooked or misunderstood, including first responders, trauma survivors, recently hospitalized, individuals with complex PTSD, postpartum depression, or other mental health diagnoses. I hope to help you better understand how you view the world and yourself. My approach is whole-person centered, exploring the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of your experience. Together, we’ll build resilience, deepen self-awareness, and work toward meaningful, lasting change.
Our first session is a space to get to know you and understand what brought you to therapy. We’ll discuss your current concerns, relevant history, review any necessary forms and complete a preliminary assessment and treatment plan. Upon booking, you are emailed an intake form and it's important to complete this prior our first appointment so I have a chance to review. In our first appointment, I will also review with you, confidentiality, my practice policies, and what to expect from therapy. If helpful, we may explore grounding or coping strategies. You’re always encouraged to ask questions—we’ll move at a pace that feels right for you.
Clients often appreciate my balance of honesty, directness and compassion. I believe that true healing in therapy comes from willingness to uncover layers, challenge unhealthy patterns and practice what we uncover in session, outside in the real world. When people come to me who have had therapy in the past, we will uncover what may have worked, what may have been missing and what we can do differently or maybe re-start now. I am comfortable in helping you see patterns or connections you might be unaware of. I help you understand how past experiences—especially early relationships—shape current thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. We identify and shift patterns that contribute to anxiety, overwhelm, relationship challenges, or addictive cycles. Our work is collaborative, practical, and insight-driven, with a focus on building self-awareness, emotional regulation, and tools you can use in daily life.
I support individuals seeking deeper self-understanding, emotional clarity, and meaningful change. Many clients feel stuck in an endless loop, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves or their relationships. I help develop goals to reduce anxiety, trauma-responses, enhance and build coping skills and replace negative thoughts with healthier ones. I work best with individual clients who are open to a more direct therapeutic approach, reflection and are curious about their inner world. Together, we’ll build positive ways of coping, relating, and moving forward. It’s understandable that some people hope to feel better after just a session or two, but lasting change often takes a bit more time and consistency. Intentionally practicing the skills and tools learned in therapy—along with completing any between-session homework—is a vital part of growth and progress.
Other specialties
I identify as
Cash - $150 per session
Aetna
Aetna - Allied Benefits
Aetna - ASR Health Benefits
Aetna - Luminare
Aetna - Medicare
Aetna - Moda
Aetna - WebTPA
Aetna – HealthEZ
All Savers
AvMed
Carelon Behavioral Health (Commercial)
Gold Coast Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
Gold Coast Health Plan Total Care Advantage (HMO D-SNP)
Golden Rule
Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare
Health Plan of San Joaquin/Mountain Valley Health Plan – Medi-Cal
Humana - Medicare
Humana Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
IHSS Healthy Workers
L.A. Care Covered
L.A. Care Covered Direct
L.A. Care Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
L.A. Care Medicare Plus (HMO D-SNP)
L.A. Care PASC-SEIU
Optum
OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions
Oscar
Oxford
Partnership HealthPlan of California (Medi-Cal)
San Francisco Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
Santa Clara Family Health Plan - Medi-Cal
SFHP Care Plus (HMO D-SNP)
Sharp Health Plan
Surest (formerly Bind)
Sutter Health Plan
United Medical Resources
UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance
UnitedHealthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
UnitedHealthcare/Optum
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.
4 ratings with written reviews
July 17, 2026
First session and I couldn’t be more pleased. I’m so thankful and excited to go on this journey with Olivia to becoming a better me!
June 9, 2026
Olivia had a very gentle and caring personality that truly listens to hear and she is able to communicate back to me as a counselor very well. She also has really good knowledge on the speciifc subjects we have talked about which has given me good clarity and peace.
May 13, 2026
Olivia was very open honest and made me feel comfortable in opening up right from the start. She was warm and very friendly. Definitely what I need in a therapist.