Often rebooked
Did you grow up being the “strong” one or feel like you had to grow up too fast? Many of the clients I work with carry anxiety, feel constantly on edge, or find themselves stuck in difficult relationship patterns as a result of earlier experiences. If this sounds familiar, hi, I’m Olivia, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a background in community mental health and an MSW from IUPUI. I work with teens (12+) and adults navigating anxiety, trauma, and relationship challenges, providing a warm but honest space to explore these patterns and build practical tools for lasting change.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
During our first session, we’ll get to know each other and talk about what brought you to therapy. I’ll ask questions to understand your goals, challenges, and strengths. My goal is to create a supportive, collaborative space where you feel heard and understood from the very beginning.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I combine practical strategies with a warm, strengths-based approach, helping clients apply insights from therapy to real-life challenges. My work is trauma-informed and person-centered, which means I focus on understanding your experiences while supporting you in building resilience and coping skills. I aim to meet each client where they are, tailoring techniques to your needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is the base for many therapy practices, and a treatment method I have been using since I began therapy services in 2022. I have experience using CBT to help clients identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress. I’ve applied CBT techniques across a range of presentations, including anxiety, depression, and adjustment difficulties. I tailor CBT interventions to each client’s readiness and goals, ensuring the process remains person-centered and paced appropriately.
Compassion Focused
My approach emphasizes creating a warm, validating, and safe therapeutic environment where clients can begin to understand the function of self-criticism and the protective role it often serves. I guide clients in developing their “compassionate self” through imagery, mindfulness, and experiential exercises aimed at activating the soothing system. I also focus on helping clients balance self-improvement with self-kindness, fostering resilience and emotional regulation through compassion-focused practices.
Trauma Informed Care
My overall therapeutic work is grounded in trauma-informed principles, ensuring sensitivity to the impact of trauma across all areas of intervention. I emphasize safety, choice, trust, collaboration, and empowerment in all interactions. I avoid pathologizing trauma responses, instead viewing them as adaptive coping mechanisms. I integrate regulation and stabilization techniques and ensure interventions are paced to avoid re-traumatization.
Attachment-based
I take an attachment-based approach, focusing on how early and past relationships shape the way people navigate closeness, trust, and emotional safety now. Many of my clients feel stuck in patterns where they want connection but also find themselves pulling away, shutting down, or questioning others’ intentions. I don’t just talk about these patterns—I pay attention to how they show up in real time, including in our work together. I’ll name what I’m noticing, even when it’s subtle. Using psychoeducation, narrative work, and problem-solving, I help clients understand where these responses come from and how to shift them. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s helping clients feel more steady, more self-aware, and less reactive in their relationships.
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December 8, 2025
I really like that Olivia is genuine and so far seems to care.