My name is Brook Olsen. I live in Valley Center California

With my wife and two dogs, together we have three grown daughters and a grandson.

I bring a unique real world perspective to working with my clients. Having spent over twenty years in the high stress, high conflict world of new home development for one of the largest developers in the country I began to look around to see the stress and disconnected relationships of those around me in all areas of my life, including my own.

I began to analyze the source of my own stress experiences. Realizing that virtually no skills are taught in the areas of communication, interpersonal relations, stress, and life management I began to seek more in-depth training in the areas which I saw so deficient in the world around me.

I believe that if we can learn techniques that can help us slow down and temporarily suspend the activity causing the conflict or agitation in our nervous system, we can allow a shift to occur, this shift moves us from an outward reaction to an inner-connected experience. Thru this connection with our self there is created a greater resiliency in our nervous system thus allowing a healthier more integrated experience of life.

My training includes six year of study with Dr. Michael Mamas in the field of transpersonal counseling, Trauma counseling, energetic healing, and meditation. I completed the three-year training in trauma resolution through the Foundation for Human Enrichment with Peter Levine and am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I am a licensed Holistic Health Practitioner and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist. I am also trained in interpersonal Communication and High Conflict Resolution.

Through these trainings I have a strong understanding of the working of the nervous system and the role it plays in trauma, conflict and anxiety. In my private practice in Encinitas California, I help my clients to resolve trauma and conflict as well as helping them to find their way through the tough choice that life sets in front of them, such as job change, divorce, death etc. I teach a High Conflict Diversion class, communication workshops for couples, verbal skills to others in the healing arts, and Core process workshops.