For professionals

Refer when a client is carrying more than they can hold alone.

Olea provides individual and couples psychotherapy for adults navigating relationship strain, separation, family conflict, anxiety, grief, responsibility, and major life changes. She has particular experience supporting caregivers, families with aging parents, and older adults.

Who Olea helps

Olea works with adults who may be functioning well in many areas of life while feeling overwhelmed, withdrawn, irritable, lonely, anxious, or unsure what to do next. The immediate concern may be a relationship, a separation, a family conflict, a change in work or parenting, grief, or a loss of direction.

Her practice welcomes people who are new to therapy, including men dealing with a relationship crisis, fatherhood, separation, loneliness, or a life that no longer feels like it fits. Caregiver, dementia, and later-life work remain an important part of the practice.

When to refer

Relationship strain, separation, divorce, co-parenting change, or recurring conflict is affecting daily life.
A client is carrying sustained responsibility with little room for their own emotional life.
Family or sibling conflict is escalating around care, money, housing, or old injuries.
A parent’s decline, dementia, or refusal of help is creating guilt, grief, burnout, or conflict.
Grief, loneliness, anxiety, or loss of direction is following a major life change.

Referral contexts

Different practical problems can carry the same emotional weight.

Family lawyers and mediators

Separation or divorce has unsettled identity, fatherhood or parenting, attachment, and daily life. Therapy gives the client a place to process the emotional material alongside legal work.

Family physicians and health professionals

Stress, sleep disruption, anxiety, relationship strain, loneliness, or loss of direction may emerge beside a life change that cannot be solved in a medical appointment.

Aging and elder-care professionals

Adult children, spouses, and older adults may need support with a parent’s decline, competing loyalties, sibling conflict, grief, or exclusion from care decisions.

Referral path

A clear referral process.

Share the consultation link

Clients can start with a free consultation through the booking page.

Make the connection

With client consent, email Olea with the reason for referral and the best way to follow up.

Coordinate with consent

With written consent, Olea can confirm connection without sharing clinical details.

Email referral inquiry Share booking page

Dementia-related referrals

When the diagnosis is straining the whole family.

Olea is not a medical dementia provider. She offers psychotherapy for the family members carrying the emotional impact around dementia: grief before death, guilt about limits, sibling disagreement, burnout, placement decisions, and the changing relationship with a parent or spouse.

View dementia caregiver therapy

Care decisions often carry grief, conflict, and questions of responsibility.