The OCC Approach
At Olive & Clay Counseling, many styles are used to target an individuals needs to find the path towards their goals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Helps you build a more meaningful life by learning to sit with discomfort, connect to your values, and take compassionate action toward the person you want to become.
Art Therapy
Uses creative expression as a path to insight, healing, and self-discovery—when words alone aren’t enough.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Explores how your earliest relationships shaped how you connect and trust, creating space to form healthier, more secure bonds today.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Supports you in understanding how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connect—empowering change through awareness and practical tools.
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Encourages you to meet yourself with gentleness, replacing self-criticism with kindness and understanding.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Honors your identity, values, and lived experiences, recognizing how culture shapes healing and self-understanding.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Teaches skills to balance acceptance and change—helping you manage emotions, strengthen relationships, and find stability in moments of intensity.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Centers on deepening emotional awareness and connection—whether with yourself or within your most meaningful relationships.
Experiential Therapy
Invites growth through creative, hands-on experiences that connect mind, body, and emotion in the healing process.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
A gentle, structured approach for reducing anxiety and OCD symptoms by building confidence in facing what feels overwhelming.
Existential Therapy
Explores questions of meaning, freedom, and purpose—helping you find clarity and peace within life’s uncertainties.
Family Systems Therapy
Looks at the family as an interconnected system—helping you understand dynamics, roles, and paths toward healing together.
Humanistic Therapy
Focuses on your capacity for growth, authenticity, and self-awareness—seeing you as a whole person, not just your struggles.
Multicultural Therapy
Integrates respect, identity, and intersectionality—embracing the richness of who you are and the contexts that shape your story.
Narrative Therapy
Helps you explore and reshape the stories you tell about yourself—honoring your experiences while creating new meanings and possibilities for your life.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Guides you in identifying and challenging unhelpful beliefs—replacing them with more balanced, compassionate ways of thinking.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Creates a safe, supportive space to process painful experiences, restore a sense of safety, and rebuild connection to self and others.