Jeni Olson, LCSW

About Jeni/Jenifer

Hi! My name is Jeni Olson and I am so excited you’re here to see if we may be a good fit. I believe in full transparency, directness and openness throughout my sessions. After all, if you’re going to be vulnerable and real, I better be too. My journey to becoming a therapists is full of rock bottoms, a lot of hardships and laughing at myself in the shit that just happened. It’s been a journey and I am so thankful for it.

I am the therapist I am, sitting in the room with you, because I know how overwhelming it can feel to disclose parts of you because I too have felt that way. Fucking terrifying to be honest. Complete terror at the idea of letting someone in and hearing the words you are about to say out loud. I have felt broke, defective; ashamed of what happened to me as though it was somehow a result of an internal flaw. I’ve experienced the rawness of suddenly losing all control and being left exposed and vulnerable. Just as quickly though, I learned how to laugh and throw a mask on to fight like hell to ensure that I was the person you thought I should be.

Sessions With Jenifer

I know what it feels like to live everyday after experiencing trauma. 

I also know what it feels like on the other side of EMDR therapy. To heal from my experiences and to breath a deep huge breath somehow feeling lighter. Relief knowing that what happened to me was just that, an experience that happened to me with pain that I no longer needed to carry. I know how hard it can be to reach out and to not feel heard or understood by anyone. The body was created with the natural ability to heal itself given the space to do so. I’m here to help you create that space. 

I am genuinely invested in you and bring an accepting, authentic and energizing presence to our sessions.

As a therapist, I believe in connection and the resiliency of the body and mind to heal. I trust you in your own journey and find it natural to utilize different approaches depending on your daily needs. I specialize in EMDR and am IFS informed, meaning we can take things as slow or as fast as your body, mind and soul want to go. There are no expectations here.

Specialties And Training

I received my Master of Social Work degree from UW-Madison in 2013 with a mental health concentration. Following graduate school, I received 3000 hours of supervision to become a Licensed Clinician Social Worker within the Community Support Program, a program dedicated to guiding those with the most isolating diagnosis to remain in their home and engaged in the community. Here I learned the beauty within those diagnosis of schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, mood disorder and dissociation. As a licensed clinical social worker within private practice, I found this calling to create space for those who feel most isolated to feel safe and secure within themselves. 

EMDR trained in 2020 and found this modality incredibly healing for those parts of you that may not have a voice or may not have been heard. Receiving 20 additional hours of supervision, I became a certified EMDR therapist in 2022. 

Additionally, I have received extensive training in:

• Attachment Focused EMDR
• Complex trauma
• parts work
• somatic integrative therapy
• IFS informed EMDR along with extensive Internal Family System training to bring this healing modality to parts that may need more space to be heard. 

With a passion to create places of acceptance and belonging to all individuals, I have been accepted into an EMDR Consultant in Training program beginning in 2023 to assist other clinicians in building their confidence with EMDR and complex diagnosis.