Olivia Taylor - Coral Heart Counseling

Practice Owner, Psychotherapist, and Mental Health Consultant – EMDR Certified

I am a warm, caring, and compassionate psychotherapist who assists and guides others towards growth, making different and difficult choices, and healing. I am passionate about antiracism, social justice, and human rights; and I consider myself culturally, developmentally, and trauma informed. I work with individuals and groups who are overwhelmed with life’s obstacles and daily antics, and who experience or have experienced depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, low self-esteem, workplace distress, relational conflicts, and overall stress. I also have experience in working with people who have had exposure to various traumatic situations that has left them feeling less trusting of the world.

I utilize various modalities, such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Psychodynamic Therapy, and CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) to guide others in their healing journey so that they can become their best selves, more mentally aware, and mentally freer than before. These techniques are meant to bring out strengths, show people their power, provide answers and solutions to many struggles, help move people forward from the effects of past emotional injuries and traumatic occurrences, and allow one to see their value in this world. I also provide guidance on difficult issues that my clientele may be faced with so that they can decide what is best.

My goal is to provide others with a safe space and necessary skills to achieve their goals. My aim is for others to have enhanced emotional intelligence, relational/relationship success, and professional growth. My hope is that people who I counsel, whether that be through individual or group work, can experience freedom of the mind, feeling at ease, and self-love well after therapy has ended.

Contract and Consultant Work

My passion is being a healer to those who have found themselves feeling emotionally injured, stuck, unheard, and undeserving. As a licensed psychotherapist and mental health professional, I utilize my knowledge of mental wellness, clinical therapeutic techniques, antiracism, and social justice to empower and assist in the growth of individuals, groups, communities, schools, and workspaces. I do this by providing therapy, workshops, healing circles, and consulting services. Because much of my work has been with people who have been impacted by historical, generational, and/or systemic trauma, my framework and clinical therapeutic techniques are culturally, developmentally, systemically, and trauma informed.

While I earned my Master’s Degree in Social Work at Erikson Institute, I was able to gain extensive knowledge about working with many age groups and communities. Hence, I started my career as a therapist by providing psychotherapy to children and adolescents, and by collaborating with their families and school providers to implement mental wellness services, strengthen bonds, and improve school success rates. After some time, I noticed how many of the adolescents I worked with were struggling to smoothly transition into college. I also noticed how children were heavily impacted by biased rules and policies created by the adults in their lives who had their own emotional battles to resolve. As a result, I started to work with young adults and adult mental health. My transition was because I discovered that one factor that influences a young person’s overall health is the mental wellness, perspectives, and intentions of those who are leading them.

When working with others, I provide a warm, caring, non-judgment, and compassionate experience, while centering the voices of those who are most vulnerable and marginalized in society. I see everyone as a human being who is trying to do the best that they can with the knowledge that they currently have. However, I also see each person as being capable of growth and realigning themselves

for the betterment of society. Consequently, my goal is to continue assisting in transforming thought processes and experiences so that our best traits as human beings can show and impact each other in a positive way. I also work to reshape challenges and traumatic moments into learning opportunities and relief. This is so that people can eventually see troubling times as just memories, as opposed to triggering incidents that might influence their decisions and actions. Ultimately, my hope is that the guidance, strategies, and skills I provide, rooted in mental wellness, can aid in healing, growth, true freedom of the mind, and feeling at ease.

Current contract and consultancy offers include:

Providing specialized cultural and trauma-informed care, guidance, and coaching.
Leading teams, groups, and workshops to provide education and information on the various components of mental health and wellness practices.
Assisting in the healing of collective emotional injuries and pain points of small and large groups.
Facilitating healing and restorative justice circles to bring about a sense of peace, belonging, and compassion.
Interceding with crisis intervention to rapidly emotionally stabilize individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Collaborating with entities to carefully analyze existing systems in place in order to truly identify if spaces, policies, and procedures account for inclusivity and mental wellness, as well as support historically devalued, underrepresented, underserved, and vulnerable populations.
Creating thoughtful conversations and workshops amongst individuals, teams, and leaders in order to work toward understanding the self, internal workings, and how one interacts and influences the world around them and people whom they steer.
Providing guidance and strategic plans to incorporate wellness programs and inclusive environments.

Therapeutic Techniques used:

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization Individual and Group (ASSYST-I and ASSYST-G)
EMDR Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents and Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-PRECI)
EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol for Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-IGTP-OTS)
Mindfulness and Mind-Body techniques
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Psychodynamic individual and group processing therapy
Psychoeducation on societal systems, mental health, and wellness

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