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