Brian Olden, LCSW

Brian Olden is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 45 years of experience. He focuses on practical help for people facing issues like relationship strain, trauma, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, and career concerns.

He writes goal plans together with each person. Sessions are collaborative and direct. He helps people name what they want to change and build small, doable steps toward those aims.

Olden has spent time living overseas and says that cultural differences shape how people cope. He also has specialized work with military trauma, sexual trauma, and other adult trauma. That background informs how he talks about safety, triggers, and next steps when trauma comes up.

He uses several well-known approaches depending on the situation. Those include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Narrative Therapy. He matches methods to goals rather than insisting on a single route.

People often come to him to manage anger that shows up at work, in close relationships, or around parenting and care duties. He helps recognize patterns, practice alternative responses, and plan for times when stress is high.

Practical problem solving is central to his work. He looks for strengths to build on, teaches skills that can be used between sessions, and checks progress against clear goals.

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