Stephanie Oliver, MA, LMFT

Hello, my name is Stephanie Oliver and I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose passion is to help people create and maintain the long-term, sustainable changes they want in order to live their most authentic and fulfilling lives.

I have been working in the mental health field for the past 10 years in a variety of settings including community mental health, in schools, in private practice, as a group facilitator and as a lecturer.

Therapeutic Approach

I am trained as a systemic therapist, which means I look at people in the context of their relationships and their social location to help them see patterns and areas of stuckness in their lives. I am very interested in helping people create long-term change and therefore I use evidence-based approaches that are rooted in emotion focused treatment and attachment. I use these approaches with a social justice lens. My style is very down-to-earth, active and engaged. I have many years of experience working with people experiencing the following:

• Relationship difficulties

• disordered eating, body image, recovering from diet culture

• Adult adoptees

• Adults from alcoholic or dysfunctional homes

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Shame, Obsession, and Habitual Worrying

• Health Anxiety

• Transitions and changes to family life cycle

• Parenting

If you have never been in therapy or if this is one of many times, please know that with me, you are walking into a safe and open-minded environment that emphasizes your strengths, hopes, and opportunities. I work with people of all races, religions, genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Willamette University 2006

Masters of Art, Marriage, Couple and Family Therapy 2012

Oregon LMFT license number: T1734