Hi, I’m Olympia, a Professional Mental Health Psychotherapist for NY and VA based clients. I am trained in EMDR, IFS, Attachment theory, DBT, CBT, ACT, & Complex Trauma. I believe the path towards growth begins with a dream: the desire to reach your full potential. Maybe you must heal. Maybe you must turn self-defeating beliefs into positive affirmations. Maybe you are stuck in the same relational patterns. Or maybe you must undergo personality or character change. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story with me can make all the difference in your journey towards self-actualization.

In our first session, we will uncover whether you need symptom relief or to work through interpersonal problems, maladaptive patterns to create adaptive behaviors, or deep-rooted problems. 

In the exploration stage and insight stage, I will work with you to tell your narratives, and then I will use challenges to disrupt problematic narratives; finally, we will use interpretations to help you rewrite your narrative in a more productive light and to think about your concerns in new ways to take corrective action. Thus, we will fine-tune your self-awareness and hone your insightfulness so that you are ready and equipped to take action in changing yourself and ultimately your life. Self-awareness is the first step towards change in one’s life.

In the action stage, based on behavioral therapy, I’ll work alongside you to develop an integrated plan to achieve mental health expansion and wellness and overcome your obstacles—often combining the practices of Psychodynamic, Narrative Therapy, Attachment Theory, Cognitive Emotive Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, Jungian shadow work, and Existential Therapy. I choose Adlerian theory as my main theory for Existentialism can act as its foundation and CBT therapies can help fill in Adlerian theory’s limited specific techniques.

If you'd like to collaborate with me, please feel free to reach out.