About Josephine
Josephine Olson is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience. She practices in Virginia and uses a trauma-informed lens to help people find steadiness when life feels overwhelming. She aims for straightforward, practical work in sessions.
She listens first, then helps people name what feels most urgent. Together they build steps to manage anxiety, mood shifts, or painful memories. Her background includes experience with trauma and mood-related concerns.
How Josephine works
She draws on methods that focus on relationships and emotion, and she uses targeted tools for intense stress or panic. That mix lets her address things like grief, addiction, or self-harm with both shorter-term skills and deeper emotional work. Josephine pays attention to how attachment and past losses shape everyday reactions.
She also helps people with issues such as parenting strain, family problems, anger, and workplace stress. Sessions emphasize clearer thinking, skill practice, and stronger emotional regulation. For people facing eating concerns, bipolar mood changes, or compulsive behaviors, she pairs skill-based exercises with processing of painful events.
She supports clients working through abandonment, codependency, sexual assault and domestic violence aftermath, and social anxiety. Her style is steady, direct, and compassionate. Josephine offers appointments by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
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Josephine lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Josephine works with
The areas below are the ones Josephine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How attachment and trauma work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns in their close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and responding. Client-Centered Therapy places the person's views and goals at the center of sessions. In this style the therapist listens without judgment and helps the person find their own solutions to stress, depression, or life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their history, current concerns, and what they hope to change. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan over time as needs and goals evolve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for emotion-focused work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or movement is limited. Live chat and text messaging make short check-ins and skill coaching convenient between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care across distances.
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