Dane Olney
Marriage & Family Therapist Trainee
Hi, I'm Dane. I'm a Tri-Valley native with fifteen years of experience walking alongside people as a local pastor. Through my own experience in therapy, I came to appreciate that healing and growth happen in relationships where we feel truly safe to be ourselves.
I hold a Master of Theology from Fuller Seminary and am completing a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Colorado Christian University while serving as a Marriage & Family Therapist Trainee. Outside of work, you’ll find me running Livermore's trails, cheering on Bay Area sports teams, or searching for my next great library book.
Why I Became a Therapist
For years, working as a pastor gave me the privilege of walking with people through some of life's most meaningful and painful moments. I found myself drawn to the deep work of helping individuals, couples, and families understand their story and heal their relationships.
Today, I work primarily with adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, addiction, betrayal, grief, anger, stress, relationship challenges, spiritual questions, or simply feeling stuck. My hope is to help people better understand what they're experiencing, strengthen their relationships, and discover a way forward that is authentic to them.
I am currently in training and working under supervision as I continue developing clinical competence. My program emphasizes both clinical skill and personal formation, which I believe are essential to ethical, effective care. I'm committed to ongoing learning and supervision as part of responsible practice.
Qualifications
Master’s Student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Supervised Practicum & Internship (Pre-Licensed) in California
Master of Theology, Fuller Seminary
My Approach
Helping you find clarity, heal relationships, and move toward lasting change.
I take an integrative approach to therapy, drawing from multiple evidence-based perspectives rather than relying on a single model. At this stage in my development, my work is shaped most clearly by emotionally focused therapy, existential therapy, and solution-focused brief therapy.
Emotionally focused therapy highlights the attachment bonds that shape our closest relationships and helps couples and families strengthen connection and trust. Existential therapy invites us to explore questions of meaning, identity, responsibility, and purpose. Solution-focused therapy keeps us attentive to strengths, hope, and practical movement toward the future you want.
These approaches are held within a broader systemic and trauma-informed framework, allowing me to tailor therapy to your unique story, relationships, and goals rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.
Areas of Focus
Marital and Pre-Marital Counseling
Parenting
Anxiety & Depression
Addiction & Codependency
Spiritual Growth & Integration
Intimate Partner Betrayal
Spiritual Abuse & Church Hurt
Trauma-Informed
A Note on Working Together
My hope is that this gives you a clear picture of how I approach therapy and care for clients. This is a collaborative process, and I welcome questions at any point. I'm also comfortable integrating spirituality into therapy when it aligns with a client's goals and values—always ethically, respectfully, and never by assumption or imposition. Ultimately, I'm less interested in applying a single model and more interested in responding with curiosity and intentionality to the individual, couple, or family I'm privileged to work with.
Let’s talk.
Reaching out is often the hardest part. It doesn't have to be a big commitment — a first conversation is just that: a conversation, to see if we're a good fit.