Olivia is a Nashville-based therapist who helps adults, teens, couples, and families heal, grow, and reach their full potential. She works with clients experiencing a wide range of challenges, including grief and loss in all its forms, trauma and attachment wounds, spiritual trauma or religious transitions, identity questions around sexuality and spirituality, infertility, relationship challenges, communication issues, life transitions, caregiver stress, and chronic illness.
Therapeutic Style & Presence
Olivia brings a steady presence that can hold even the most complex emotions while gently guiding her clients toward clarity and authentic healing. Often described as wise beyond her years, she offers warmth, intelligence, and deep attunement. With honesty and compassion, she creates a grounded, collaborative, and safe space for clients to explore their stories. Her ability to integrate emotional, spiritual, and relational layers makes her especially helpful for clients seeking support from a grief therapist, trauma therapist, or spiritual trauma therapist in Nashville or throughout Tennessee.
Integrative Approach
Olivia’s approach is integrated and flexible, drawing from multiple therapeutic modalities to meet the needs of each unique client. She is trained in Somatic Attachment-Based EMDR, which helps clients process trauma through both the mind and body. She is also trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), an evidence-based form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) used specifically for trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Her approach helps clients understand their nervous system, release stored trauma, and build deeper emotional safety within themselves and their relationships. Clients searching for an EMDR therapist in Nashville, a trauma therapist who integrates somatic work, or a CPT therapist in Tennessee often feel especially supported by her work.
Couples Counseling & Relationship Work
Olivia is also passionate about working with couples navigating communication problems, emotional intimacy and vulnerability, betrayal or disconnection, parenting-related stress, life transitions, family-of-origin patterns, and recurring conflict. She frequently draws on her Gottman Level 1 training and her Prepare/Enrich Certification to support pre-engagement and pre-marital counseling, as well as couples navigating ongoing relational challenges. She is a strong fit for clients seeking couples counseling in Nashville or support around communication and relationship repair.
Experiential Therapy
A distinctive part of Olivia’s style is her use of play therapy across all ages. She believes creativity, imagination, and embodied expression create access points to emotions and insights that traditional talk therapy sometimes cannot reach. This makes her a strong fit for clients looking for experiential therapy in Nashville.
Education & Credentials
Olivia earned a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Lipscomb University and a Bachelor’s degree in Pre-Law and Psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic University. She is a pre-licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and is supervised by Dr. Dan Goldstein at Nashville Psych and Dr. Dave M. Morgan, LMFT.
Outside The Therapy Room
When she is not sitting with clients, you can often find Olivia searching for the best espresso in Nashville, practicing hot yoga, reading fiction, or planning her next weekend adventure with friends and family.