Olivia Keiner
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC), I bring clinical expertise and lived experience to my work, along with a deep compassion for the complexities of the human experience. My clinical experience includes working with first responders, trauma survivors, individuals transitioning home after psychiatric hospitalization, people living with complex PTSD, individuals experiencing perinatal and postpartum depression, and schizophrenia. My approach is rooted in seeing and hearing you as a whole person, while honoring the many experiences that have shaped who you are. We explore the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of your wellness to develop self-awareness and find a path toward healing and recovery. I believe every person deserves the opportunity to move and shift from suffering to thriving.
Less spiraling, more thriving!
First session
In our first session, the goal is to discuss what brings you to therapy, complete a preliminary clinical assessment, and review confidentiality, privacy and some basic practice policies. If you've received therapy before, we explore what was helpful and what you're looking for. Questions are encouraged!
Strengths
I strive to balance honesty, directness, and compassion in my communication. Effective therapy requires a willingness to look at yourself honestly, challenge patterns that no longer serve you, learn new skills, and practice them outside of session. Insight without action rarely creates lasting change. My therapy sessions are moderately structured and often require activities or exercises you are asked to complete outside of sessions. One of my strengths is helping people recognize patterns and themes in symptoms, problems and behaviors. As those become clear, you're guided in how to change the ones that are causing anxiety, overwhelm, relationship problems, or negative, deep-rooted, negative beliefs. I don't believe in giving advice from a distance or simply nodding along. My role is to ask the questions that matter, offer honest observations, and help you build the awareness and tools needed to create the life you want. I am a Christian with a warm-embrace of people of all faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or lack thereof. I incorporate faith and spirituality as much or as little as you need and want.
Ideal clients
I support individuals seeking deeper self-understanding, emotional clarity, and meaningful change. I help unstick stuck patterns or problems that feel like an endless loop. 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 direct therapeutic approach and are curious about their inner world. I am a short-term, solution-focused therapist. This means our goal should be to complete treatment anywhere from three to six months. You will often hear solutions in therapy.
Treatment methods
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 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, we 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. R
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.
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Virtual sessions
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- CaliforniaLicense 161304