Dr. Olivia Rosner
The most meaningful parts of life are the connections we build with others, and I’m honored to help people discover and nurture their most profound relationships.
Sometimes we can be so comfortable in our patterns, even when they are not beneficial to us, that we struggle to understand ourselves on a deeper level.
Olivia works to understand how we repeat and engage in dynamics and similar patterns throughout our lives. By addressing these patterns, Olivia helps clients break free from repeating unhelpful dynamics and develop deep insight into themselves and their partners. While situations and relationships may feel different throughout your life, Olivia helps you to identify similarities, parallels, and patterns that can help you change your narrative for the better and finally thrive.
Olivia specializes in trauma-based work, whether that be traumatic experiences endured by an individual, or “mini-traumas” that have occurred in a relationship. Working through these mini-traumas in therapy can help us to understand our emotions underneath our behaviors and can help our partners understand our motivations. Olivia helps clients understand how trauma can impact individuals and couples in complex ways. Olivia is also an expert in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) which focuses on attachment-related difficulties.
Olivia also has extensive experience working with clients with marginalized identities, particularly people in the LGBTQIA+ community. Olivia uses curiosity and openness to explore intersecting identities. As a clinician, Olivia deeply connects with her clients and works to maintain meaningful therapeutic relationships. Olivia is genuine, connected, and attuned, and approaches her work with warmth and levity.
- I live by the philosophy that
- we all contribute to what is happening in our lives and it is important to look at our part in dynamics.
- I could spend every day
- walking my dog on the beach— her tail never stops wagging!
- As a therapist, I
- am right there with you as a client. I experience the human emotions with you and bring warmth and earnestness.
Credentials
- Psy.D. Professional Psychology, George Washington University
- M. Psy. Professional Psychology, George Washington University
- B.A. Psychology, University of Maryland
Specialties
- ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Affair Recovery
- Anxiety
- Body Image Concerns
- Communication
- Couples Weekend/Week-long Intensives
- Dating couples
- Depression
- Discerning Whether to Leave a Relationship
- Early career exploration
- Empty Nester Reconnection
- Friendship Therapy
- Grief and Heartbreak support
- Identity Exploration
- Inter-racial Couples
- Intimacy After Sexual Trauma
- LGBTQIA+
- Men & Masculinities
- Negotiating Low or Mismatched Sexual Desire
- Negotiating Polyamory
- Neurodivergent affirming care
- Poly-Affirming Care
- Premarital Counseling
- Seeking love and intimacy
- Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
- Sex Therapy
- Sibling Therapy
- Social Anxiety
- Trans-Affirming Care
- Trauma/PTSD
- Women and female identified issues
Modalities
- Attachment-Based Psychotherapy for Couples and Individuals (ABFT)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Psychodynamic Couples Therapy
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Relational Psychoanalytic Individual and Couples Therapy
