Philosophy and Approach

Lighted Pathways is dedicated to Creating Healthy Relationships for Life. Jenny Olin, LCSW believes through healing your individual and relationship wounds you can transform your life of strife and pain into a life of abundance and pleasure.

Just as you are born with the need for air, water, food and shelter, you are born with the need to have relationships with other people. Jenny Olin believes you do not have to endure an unhappy, unfulfilling relationship in order to not be alone.

At Lighted Pathways, Jenny Olin listens to your unique story. She is interested in understanding the problem that brings you to counseling and in understanding what you believe needs to happen for the problem to go away. She helps you identify strengths you know you possess, strengths you have forgotten you have, and strengths you may be unaware you have. She helps you successfully tap into your capacity to use these strengths to overcome your current pain.

Jenny Olin uses her more than 27 years of clinical training and experience to provide you with information, insights, feedback, and direction. She does this while giving caring, concerned support to you while you let go of what doesn’t work in your life and relationships and try out new possibilities until you find what works for you. She has a history of success in helping people who have not solved their problems with previous counseling.

Some of the tools Jenny Olin offers for transforming your unhappiness into fulfilling relationships include: 

• Understanding intimacy - how to create or increase it
  
• Learning healthy ways to communicate – to hear and be heard
  
• Identifying stress styles – finding your triggers and how to reduce stress
  
• Reducing conflict – letting go of bad feelings
  
• Negotiating change in relationships – how to “fight fair”
  
• Discovering unhealthy influences – past and present
  
• Breaking dysfunctional patterns – getting rid of what doesn’t work
  
• Healing past and present pain – forgiveness 

Jenny Olin works for you to make sure during each session you feel heard, understood, and respected, that you are given the opportunity to talk about and work on what you want to talk about and work on, that her approach is a good fit for you, and you leave each session with the experience of it being worthwhile. It is of great importance your experience at Lighted Pathways helps you create healthy relationships for life so you live life more abundantly.