Brittany Olsen, MA, MFT

I’ve been seeing Brittany now for just over 3 months and I couldn’t me more satisfied with the outcome. In this short amount of time she’s helped me recognize and put a label to the anxiety I’ve wrestled with the past few years, which was such a relief for me to understand my thoughts and behaviors with certain situations that caused my anxiety to heighten. Furthermore she’s helped me to find solutions I can apply for those moments that brought me to her in the first place, and things to practice in my everyday thinking as preventative measures. She has worked with me on things ranging from my childhood, family, work, and marriage, and with the same level of precision, detail, and sensitivity. Most recently, she has been counseling my husband and I together and we have both found it to be so healthy for our marriage. She is so thoughtful in response and always asks there right questions to get me to open up and challenges me to evaluate events with a new perspective. Brittany is a great listener and I’ve felt comfortable opening up to her from the beginning. I am so glad I found my way to her cozy office, and would recommend her to anyone curious about therapy or wanting to talk to someone about what they’re going through.

This review isn’t going to be quite as fun to read as my waxing poetic on hush puppies or pork belly ramen, but it’s an important one.
My childhood had some stuff. I mean *stuff*. Not that I need to get in a pissing contest with you about your stuff, but let’s say at least 80^th percentile bad stuff, here.
Now, I knew for a few years that seeing a therapist would be a good idea. I wanted to gain some peace from all that stuff, and sort out how to better relate to other people without past demons getting in the way.
I had no idea how I would get there. Or how it would be possible. Or even that it was possible. But that, folks, is why you pay for professional help.
Brittany is most certainly professional. This is someone who knows what the hell she’s talking about, and more importantly, what you’re talking about. Often I’ve found she understands my motivations and reactions before I do.
Crucially, Brittany is not afraid to call you out on your bullshit. Not in a confrontational or hostile way, but she will assert a different perspective when she sees one. Which is awesome, since this helps change patterns of thinking.
And that’s been the whole pattern of my work with her: getting help reconfiguring my brain, updating my perspectives and ensuring I see the larger context of how I act, feel and think.
From the beginning, Brittany set herself apart by pointing out that she didn’t want to milk my checkbook for years and years. In the space of just a few months, I’ve enjoyed a huge improvement in my sense of self and well-​being. All without wallowing endlessly in bad memories and past traumas. Though the past provides useful context, the bulk of our work together has concerned the here-​and-​now. Which is great, since that’s where you can actually change things.
This is way beyond what my limited expectations would have allowed.
So get off your ass and get to work on yourself, if that’s what you need, and see if you like Brittany. You’ll find her very easy to talk to and full of keen insight on the quirks of your mental state. One of my greatest joys is discovering people who are superlatively good at what whatever work they’ve applied themselves to. In that I can give Brittany my highest endorsement.

Brittany has been a big support and has assisted me with developing some tools that have helped me in the past two years. She’s a flexible therapist who practices Positive Psychology techniques and has really helped me reframe some of my distorted thinking on some issues. She is kind, funny (there’s been a lot of laughter in our sessions), and extremely sharp and smart. Her office location is also incredibly convenient to get to by BART, which is always important since I’m so busy!

she’s so awesome. its hard to describe how much she has helped me with my relationships & overall life things. she just has such sound advice.
the best thing I love about her is that I never feel stupid with anything I bring up, she is so open about everything and really gets me thinking in the right direction.

Brittany is the best — she helped me get through what started out as relationship counseling, but which turned into a breakup, with great understanding and patience. She gave me the tools that enabled me to come to my own decisions about a difficult situation and the support to feel confident about the next stage in my life. She has a cognitive behavioral therapy approach, and gave me pragmatic tools to bring order to my life, which helped me better deal with the situation one baby step at a time. I would highly recommend, and have recommended, Brittany to anyone working through relationship changes, issues or milestones.