Olive Tree Counseling provides counseling services to clients located in Virginia and North Carolina. Counseling is offered through a secure online platform, allowing individuals across Virginia and North Carolina to access support in a private and convenient format.

All services are provided in accordance with Virginia and North Carolina licensing requirements and professional ethical standards.

Counseling supports individuals experiencing concerns such as anxiety, trauma, attachment-related challenges, life transitions, stress, emotional overwhelm, and difficulties related to past experiences. Some clients come to counseling with a specific concern, while others seek support because something feels unresolved or difficult to manage.

Counseling is individualized and focused on helping you gain insight, build emotional regulation skills, and move toward meaningful change.

The first counseling session is an opportunity to share what prompted you to seek counseling, ask questions, and begin clarifying goals. The focus is on understanding your concerns, personal history, and what you hope to gain from counseling.

There is no pressure to share more than you are comfortable with during the first session. Establishing safety, trust, and collaboration is the priority.

Yes. Olive Tree Counseling offers trauma-informed counseling for clients in Virginia and North Carolina, with a strong focus on how early experiences and attachment patterns impact emotional well-being and current functioning.

Many clients come to counseling to address recurring emotional responses, difficulty trusting, heightened reactivity, or feelings of disconnection. Counseling provides a compassionate space to explore these patterns and develop healthier internal and relational responses.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy used to help individuals process distressing or traumatic experiences. EMDR supports the brain in reprocessing memories that remain “stuck,” allowing them to be stored in a more adaptive and less emotionally charged way.

EMDR therapy can be helpful for trauma, anxiety, and other concerns rooted in past experiences. Sessions are paced carefully, with attention to safety and emotional readiness.

Watch this video from EMDRIA to learn more about how EMDR helps to resolve the impacts of trauma: