Josephine Olson, LPC

Josephine Olson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with more than 15 years of experience providing therapeutic care to children, adolescents, young adults, and families throughout Virginia. She brings a trauma-informed, evidence-based approach to her work, blending specialized training and years of clinical practice to support lasting change and improved functioning.

Olson holds several advanced credentials that shape her practice. She is a Registered Play Therapy-Supervisor, qualifying her to provide and supervise therapeutic play services for young clients. She is EMDRIA level 2 trained, indicating advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related concerns. She also carries national certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy - a skills-based approach for managing intense emotions - and is trained as a Certified Traumatologist, which informs her use of trauma-sensitive principles across care.

In addition to clinical methods, Olson integrates her identity as a Christian counselor when clients request faith-informed support, bringing both grace and guidance into sessions. She works with a broad range of concerns including stress and anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and self-esteem and coping with life changes. Her background emphasizes healing across generations and building resilience for individuals and families.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and emotional bonds, helping clients explore how early connections influence current patterns in relationships and attachment concerns. It can be useful for those working through abandonment, attachment issues, or family conflict. Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - teaches practical skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, making it a strong option for clients who struggle with mood instability, intense emotions, or self-harm behaviors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact, often used for survivors of assault, abuse, and other traumatic events.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Olson collaborates with each client to assess needs, goals, and personal preferences, and together they determine which methods or combination of methods will best support healing and growth.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging allow clients to access licensed professionals from different locations and to choose formats that fit their schedules and comfort levels. These options can make it easier to maintain regular care, coordinate with work or family responsibilities, and continue therapy during life transitions.