Olivia Carollo (she/her)

My dissertation investigated body image across diverse populations including WOC. In particular I am interested in how WOC use their bodies as a commodity in order to compensate for systemic-level oppression and white-cis-heteronormative dynamics. Clinically, I work from a holistic, relational, empowerment focused and intersectional feminist perspective. I recognize that areas of oppression are linked and cumulative. I strive to use my privileges to help others create clarity and

Clinically, I work from a holistic, relational, empowerment focused and intersectional feminist perspective. I recognize that areas of oppression are linked and cumulative. In response, I work to help clients navigate these complex dynamics and improve their quality of life. As a Cis-White, Able-Bodied female, it is my job to do the background work and create a space where clients can explore, learn and understand themselves better. You are the expert of your life.

As a queer person in a straight-passing relationship, I recognize the privilege that I bring to the therapy room. In response, I work to continuously develop my knowledge base and "expertise" about both queer issues as well expansive relationships by engaging in continuing education, consultation and my clinical work. I see a large number of LGBTQ individuals and work to expand my personal network of friends and colleagues.

I bring specialized experience working with queer clients across identity, relationships, and life transitions. This includes reducing gatekeeping around gender-affirming care, writing support letters, and helping clients navigate medical, legal, and family systems that often create additional barriers. I actively decenter heteronormative and mononormative assumptions, and recognize that queerness may be central or simply one part of why someone seeks therapy.

I support clients whose distress is shaped by ongoing systemic harm, including racism, poverty, immigration stress, political or gender violence, and marginalization. Much of this work involves naming injustice without internalizing blame, witnessing anger and grief, and finding agency within unchangeable conditions. Healing here often includes somatic support, meaning-making, and strengthening connection to community, lineage, and collective care.

My trauma work centers relational, developmental, and complex trauma, including experiences of abuse and chronic threat. I prioritize pacing, consent, and collaboration, recognizing that survival strategies once served a purpose. Rather than pathologizing responses to trauma, we work to understand patterns shaped by past harm and expand choice, safety, and agency over time.

We are all relational beings seeking to make sense of the ourselves, others and the world. In response, the therapeutic relationship can be used as a vehicle to gain insight, self-compassion and understanding. Slowing down to consider why we (and others) act, believe and think the way we do can result in healthier relationships and boundaries while getting our needs met.

I provide culturally responsive, anti-oppressive therapy that honors your full identity—race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture. I work with BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, first-gen, and immigrant clients navigating trauma, intergenerational pain, and systemic stress. I approach therapy with clinical humility and a commitment to decolonizing frameworks, holding space for your lived experience without expecting you to educate me.

Culturally responsive therapy recognizes that distress, coping, and healing are shaped by culture, history, community, and social context. I work with an awareness that diagnostic frameworks and interventions do not fit all people equally. This approach emphasizes curiosity without assumption, shared meaning-making, and care that adapts to lived realities without asking clients to educate, justify, or translate their experience.

Feminist therapy means naming power, validating your lived experience, and recognizing the systems that have shaped your story. I work with people unlearning shame, shedding roles that no longer fit, and reclaiming their voice. Whether you're navigating gender, boundaries, body image, or burnout, we work together in a way that’s collaborative, affirming, and rooted in your autonomy.

Relational therapy focuses on how patterns formed in early relationships shape how you relate to yourself and others today. I pay close attention to attachment, power, and how vulnerability and responsiveness unfold between us in the therapy space. When difficult feelings or painful experiences are shared, they are met with attuned, empathetic presence. Through openness and collaboration, therapy becomes a place to interrupt familiar patterns and experience something different.

Feminist therapy centers the analysis of power and social roles in order to understand distress. We explore how gendered expectations, emotional labor, and colonized definitions of worth shape a persons self-concept and relationships. Through this lens symptoms are understood as adaptive responses to unequal systems rather than personal failure. This work involves unlearning shame, reclaiming your voice, and living in greater alignment with your personal values.