About Olivia
Olivia Shuttleworth is a licensed independent clinical social worker with more than three decades of clinical practice. She works with adults who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing major life changes. Olivia uses practical skills and straightforward talk to help people manage daily strain and symptoms that interfere with life.
She began social work in 1985 and has been a therapist since 1989. Her background includes inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient clinics, day hospital and rehabilitation programs, and work in the Veterans Affairs system.
Background and approach
She has also provided care in hospice settings and supported people with severe mental health concerns. Olivia has helped people with eating concerns, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, addictions, and obsessive-compulsive issues. She also supports people coping with loss, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and challenges related to ADHD and seasonal mood changes.
Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness skills, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused work. Sessions focus on learning concrete tools, building coping strategies, and finding steady ways to manage upsetting thoughts and behaviors. Olivia believes support is a core part of recovery.
She offers a calm, experienced presence for people who need structured help from a therapist. Prospective clients can expect practical steps alongside compassionate listening.
How Olivia’s approaches work online
Olivia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based skills to help people change thinking patterns and build steady routines. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and increase calm in stressful moments.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try specific techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to choose whether CBT exercises, DBT-style skills, or trauma-focused techniques make the most sense for each issue.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions can fit a lunch break or low-bandwidth situation, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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