Olivia Barnoe

“The body remembers what the mind forgets.” -J.L. Moreno 

There’s a kind of pain that’s easy to ignore– until you can’t anymore. Maybe you feel stuck: overwhelmed by emotions or physical sensations you can’t explain. Maybe you keep finding yourself in the same painful relational patterns or wondering why part of you still doesn’t feel safe, even in the absence of current danger. These feelings aren’t character flaws– they’re evidence of a nervous system that learned to survive. 

You might not have words for what’s wrong. You might not even know what brought you here. But something within you is asking for change. 

What would it be like to feel safe within yourself? To assert healthy boundaries with others? To have an inner voice rooted in self-compassion? Therapy won’t erase what you’ve lived through, but it can lessen its hold. It can offer language for what once felt unspeakable. Together, we’ll explore not just the past, but how it persists in your experiences, relationships, and beliefs about yourself. 

My background in the arts shapes both my practice and my perspective. As a writer and clinician, I believe every person carries a story worth understanding, and that transformative power lies in making meaning of that story. Drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Psychodramatic techniques, I offer a trauma-informed space to explore the roots of your struggles– as well as where they live on in the body and mind– and begin to build a fuller, more integrated life.

Because the body remembers— but together, we can begin to understand what it’s been trying to say.