# Joshua Nathaniel Reid Ollswang

> Licensed psychotherapist and couples therapist with more than twenty years specializing in
> high-functioning, high-needs people from childhood through adulthood. International online
> practice by Zoom; private pay, out-of-network. Also a machine learning researcher in
> therapeutic AI and socioaffective alignment.

## Practice

- Couples therapy — Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment-based work, rupture and repair, affair recovery, discernment counseling.
- Men's issues — therapy for men and high-achieving men across the lifespan.
- Men's groups — large facilitated groups, including groups of approximately ninety men.
- Individual psychotherapy — depth, psychodynamic, Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment science.
- Therapy intensives — extended one-to-two-hour sessions and intensive formats.
- Relationship coaching — internationally, by video.

## Range

Twenty-plus years with high-functioning, high-needs people, beginning as a child psychotherapist
through a University of Chicago internship and gifted-and-talented programs, continuing with the
adults those children become. The practice spans community mental health — homelessness, addiction,
and serious mental illness — and teaching in Harlem, alongside executives, founders, and
high-net-worth families. Lectures given at psychological association conferences.

## Education

Advanced degrees from the University of Chicago and The European Graduate School; B.A. in Psychology
from the City University of New York. Additional studies at Stanford, The Juilliard School, and the
London School of Economics.

## Research

Machine learning research on therapeutic presence, domain-adaptive pretraining, interpretability,
and socioaffective alignment for ameliorative AI.

## Links

- [Home](https://joshuaollswang.com/): practice, research, models, music, chess.
- [Contact](https://joshuaollswang.com/contact.html): inquiries about therapy, couples work, groups, and intensives.
- [Relational work](https://joshuaollswang.com/relational.html): On Love, On Loss.
- [Writing](https://joshuaollswang.com/blog/): essays on attachment, therapy, and AI.