The Episcopal Counseling Center

Ginette E. Olsen, Ph.D. GinetteO@ecc1021.com Orlando Office, Apopka Mental Health Counselor   #6205

    Dr. Olsen is originally from Caracas, Venezuela and has lived and studied in three different cultures.  She brings with her over twenty years of experience in counseling, training, community development, health care services and youth work.  She began the Professional Counselor Program at Rollins College and completed the M.ED. In Guidance and Counseling (Mental Health Tract) at the University of North Florida.  She had earlier earned the MA and Ph.D. in Education at the University of Michigan, and joined the Counseling Center in May of 2003  She is a national lecturer on cultural competency (workplace/healthcare/palliative care) and an adjunct faculty member at Asbury Seminary’s Latino Latina Studies Program.

Ginette is fluent in Spanish, French and conversational Creole.  She is a licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Michigan and a Facilitator for Walking the Mourners Path and for Critical Incident Stress Management.

Ginette has extensive experience among culturally diverse populations in individual, marital, group counseling and grief therapy.  In additions she works with men, women and cross-cultural couples.  Parenting concerns, grief, inner healing prayer and acculturation issues hold a special interest.

The Olsen’s have two married children and Ginette partners in ministry with her husband, Lloyd (priest-in-charge at St. Mary of the Angels’ Episcopal Church).