About Olivia

I know how much it matters to have someone who can sit with you — not to fix or judge, but simply to listen, with care, presence and knowing that you are more than your pain or survival patterns. My role as a counsellor is to hold a space where you can explore your own stories of shame, trauma or disconnection and begin to reclaim your voice, your power and your belonging – from the inside, first. Ultimately, returning to a place of wholeness within.

I believe that when we feel truly seen and safe enough to be ourselves, transformation becomes possible. My commitment is to meet you with compassion, presence and full trust that you can move through whatever you’re carrying into a life that feels connected, free and most importantly – yours.

Some experiences that inform my work:

For much of my life, I felt unseen, unheard and misunderstood. That silence grew into a deep internal shame and fed the beliefs that I was somehow both too much and not enough. To survive, I turned to strategies that kept me safe but never truly connected, such as: fawning, people pleasing, co-dependency, perfectionism and even isolation. While these protected me, they also kept me from the one thing I longed for most: genuine belonging.

Slowly, through therapy, journaling, meditation and learning about the nervous system, things began to shift. I started to see that my shame stories weren’t proof that something was inherently wrong with me — they were wounds that yearned to be witnessed, held, accepted and loved. Later, through practices like parts work and mindfulness, I discovered ways to meet the parts of myself I had hidden away with compassion instead of judgment.

Recently, I deepened this work in a Vipassana meditation retreat, where silence made the darkest corners of myself impossible to ignore. In that space, I experienced what happens when we stop resisting and fearing our shadow: even the most painful parts can be seen for their purpose, understood with equanimity, and released from the grip of shame. With that came a lightness, ease and a full body relief of no longer needing to mask myself for outside approval and external validation.

All of these experiences have led me to this work.