Isabella Oliver (she/her)

I help couples and individuals understand the patterns keeping them stuck. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we explore what's beneath conflicts—attachment wounds, communication breakdowns, unmet needs. We actively build new patterns that create emotional safety and genuine connection. Whether navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, or wanting deeper intimacy, we focus on tangible shifts that last.

As an LGBTQ+ therapist, I bring lived experience to navigating identity, coming out, and building relationships outside heteronormative scripts. I understand the complexity of chosen family dynamics and the unique challenges of queer relationships. I create affirming space where you can explore identity, intimacy, and authenticity without needing to explain or justify yourself. This work is about building a life that's genuinely yours.

I help clients understand anxiety not just as a symptom to manage, but as information about what matters to you. We explore how anxiety lives in your body, the attachment patterns and beliefs fueling it, and build concrete skills to shift your relationship with it. Using somatic and psychodynamic approaches, we work to create lasting change—not just coping strategies, but actual rewiring of how you respond to fear and uncertainty.

I use psychodynamic work to explore how unconscious patterns, past relationships, and early experiences continue to shape your present. We look at what's beneath the surface—the beliefs, defenses, and attachment patterns driving your behavior. This isn't just insight for insight's sake; we actively work to shift these patterns so you can relate to yourself and others in new ways that create the life you want.

I help clients examine the stories they tell about themselves and their lives. We explore how past experiences have shaped your narrative and identify where those stories might be keeping you stuck. Together, we work to author new narratives that feel more aligned with who you actually are and who you want to become. This approach honors your expertise on your own life while creating space for transformation.

I use EFT to help couples and individuals understand the attachment needs driving their behavior. We explore the emotional patterns beneath conflicts and build new ways of connecting that create safety and closeness. EFT is research-backed as one of the most effective approaches for relationship work. Rather than just teaching communication skills, we rewire how you attach and respond to each other at a fundamental level.