Olivia Mackley, LMFT (She/Her)

About Olivia Mackley

Olivia is a Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in the treatment of trauma, anxiety, and depression. Her decade-long career has included trauma-informed work in hospital and community mental health settings. Olivia practices with an emphasis on understanding how life experiences impact a person’s mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. She prioritizes building therapeutic relationships based on empathy, trust, vulnerability, and humor.

Olivia draws from several approaches, always with a whole-person, relational lens—mainly from person-centered, mindfulness, somatic approaches, DBT (advanced DBT training), narrative therapy( trained in TFCBT), and CBT.

She values self-compassion, finding balance in life, and feeling a connectedness to the universe and those around her. 

Olivia has a passion for nature and animals and enjoys gardening and being outside with a balance of bingo and binge-worthy TV. She lives in the St. Paul area with her husband, daughter, two dogs, and cat. With a goal of adding a rescue horse to the mix!

Population Served: Adults, Adolescents, LGBTQ+, Trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, difficult life transitions, life changes, abuse, and emotion management.

**If interested in exploring Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy **

Olivia is a psychedelic-informed therapist trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy by the Polaris Insight Center. She is currently taking clients interested in exploring KAP to assist in healing from trauma, depression, and/or anxiety.

Olivia is deeply inspired by individuals’ “inner healing intelligence” and the innate ability to mend. She believes that a non-ordinary state of consciousness can open the mind to that healing process and help to facilitate new patterns of thinking and being. Her role is to assist in creating optimal conditions, including a collaborative and authentic therapeutic relationship built on trust, understanding, and compassion. Olivia is committed to being on the journey with you, to prepare and guide, create a safe, comfortable environment, provide calm, peaceful energy, and then process and reflect in a meaningful and effective way.