Christine Olson
Christine Olson
(she/her)
I am a culturally-responsive, somatically-oriented trauma therapist with a decade of experience supporting individuals healing and growing from trauma (single-event and complex PTSD), attachment wounds, anxiety, grief and loss, as well as challenges related to identity and life transitions. I am especially passionate about serving members of Queer/LGBTQIA+, gender expansive, and BIPOC communities. My primary hope is to cultivate the felt sense of safety and trust in one's nervous system and the therapeutic relationship. I integrate EMDR, somatic therapy, and parts work (IFS/ego states) to understand the impact of past wounds on present challenges, resolve barriers to change, and increase one's capacity and agency for a more peaceful future. I bring my authentic self to each session and see myself as a guide in this process, attuning to your needs with compassion and empathy. I invite collaboration and feedback from you, the expert of your lived experiences. Thank you for considering working together; it is a gift and a privilege to be entrusted as a provider of care and healing.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In a first session I aim to get a broad understanding of what brought a person to therapy including their cultural identifiers, history and present concerns/triggers. I also want to know what supports, resources, and forms of coping one already has to integrate into our work. I am often attuning to observe the narrative or pattern between past wounds and present coping; I may offer insights or explore ideas for our work together. I always welcome feedback and questions from clients.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I have often been described as offering a warm, gentle, and safe space for clients to process challenges and realize their internal capacity for more easeful living.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I love working with members of the LGBTQIA and trans/non-binary community, individuals interested in therapy for the first time, as well as individuals eager to engage in somatic and/or trauma-focused work!
About Christine Olson
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EMDR
EMDR is an evidenced-based modality for treating complex and single-incident trauma in addition to many other presenting concerns including anxiety, depression, disordered eating, grief and loss. As an EMDR therapist, I serve as a guide to support the innate healing process and internal wisdom we all posses. EMDR integrates the use of our senses, cognition/belief, emotions, and physical sensations in order to resolve distressing memories from the past and increase a sense of empowerment in the present and future.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
As a White, cis-woman, I am cognizant of and committed to engaging with the ways in which my identities impact my work and the spaces I inhabit. I hold a deep respect for the wisdom, practices, and values that come from indigenous and non-Western, de-colonial cultures and I welcome these resources into the therapeutic space.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
As a clinician I believe parts work provides a beautiful and empowering way to conceptualize our responses, triggers/activating events, as well as internal conflicts.
Somatic
Somatic therapy attunes to the connection between the mind and body as a whole. As a therapist, my aim is to attune to your nervous system and support your awareness of what your body (nervous system) needs to feel grounded and navigate distress (difficult feelings, triggers, physical sensations etc). Somatic exercises are often an integral tool in session and strategy in one's daily life to support healing/coping with the mind and body's response to stress/threat.