Olivia Tenney

(she/her)

clinical student intern

I approach therapy from a process-oriented art therapy, relational, strengths-based, and person-centered perspective. I believe that healing often emerges through the creative process itself rather than through the creation of a finished product. Art making can provide a safe and meaningful way to externalize experiences, explore emotions, develop insight, and reconnect with personal strengths in ways that may be difficult to access through words alone.

I believe that you are the expert on your own lived experience, and my role is to cultivate a collaborative, affirming, and nonjudgmental space where you feel supported in exploring your goals, identities, and experiences at your own pace. I view the creative process as something we can approach together with curiosity, openness, and respect for the meanings you assign to your work.

My practice is grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and identity-affirming care. I welcome clients of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, relationship structures, cultural backgrounds, abilities, and neurotypes. I recognize that experiences of oppression, discrimination, and systemic inequities can profoundly affect mental health and well-being, and I strive to honor the resilience and complexity each person brings into the therapy space.

As a white, cisgender woman, I acknowledge that my own social identities shape my perspective. I am committed to ongoing self-reflection, humility, and lifelong learning so that I can provide ethical, inclusive, and affirming care while remaining attentive to the power dynamics that exist within the therapeutic relationship.

Education and Supervision:

I am a third-year graduate student in the Art Therapy and Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's program at Lewis & Clark College. My coursework has included counseling theories, art therapy theory and practice, diversity, equity, and social justice, lifespan development, psychopathology and diagnosis, group art therapy, clinical assessment, trauma-informed care, ethics, and research. As an art therapy intern, I work under the supervision of a licensed art therapist and in accordance with the ethical standards of the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) and Oregon law. My Full Spectrum Supervisors are Sarah Abramovitz ART-BC, LCAT, LPC and Julie Cloutier LPC. My Lewis and Clark Supervisor is Kristine Bella LCAT, ATR-BC, ATCS. I am a Qualified Mental Health Associate Registrant in the state of Oregon, (QMHA-R) 26-QMHA-R-8727.