I'm Dr. Olivier van Hauwermeiren, a licensed clinical psychologist, and I've been practicing for over 5 years.
My bread and butter is working with folks dealing with OCD, anxiety, trauma, and burnout, the kind of stuff that can quietly take over daily life even when everything looks fine from the outside.
My approach is collaborative and proactive. I'm not the kind of therapist who quietly nods along while asking about your week, I like to work with clients to build a real treatment plan and stay an active part of the room.
I've been practicing clinical psychology for over 5 years, and my bread and butter is working with folks dealing with OCD, anxiety, trauma, and burnout. I lean on a mix of evidence-based approaches, mainly ERP, ACT, and CPT, depending on what's actually going on for you. I enjoy process-oriented work, but I also want to teach as much as I can along the way, so clients walk away understanding themselves and having real tools for managing their own mental health, not just relying on me to do it.
My goal, honestly, is to get fired. I want you to wake up one day and realize you don't need me anymore. That's the dream.
The first session isn't a checklist intake. I like to orient myself to your life, understanding the stressors and patterns that are actually in play and what's likely contributing to why you're here in the first place.
By the end of the hour, my hope is that we've got a collaborative game plan for how to move forward, and that you've walked away with something useful, some piece of material or insight you can actually take with you.
Building rapport quickly matters a lot to me, it's one of the most well-established predictors of good therapy outcomes, so I treat that first conversation as seriously as anything else we'll do together.
