- Stress and anxiety
- Trauma and grief
- Blended family issues
About Jessica
Jessica Odell is a Colorado Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of professional experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting, ADHD, and LGBT issues.
Jessica uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels most urgent. She listens for how daily routines, relationships, and past experiences shape current struggles. From there she offers options for changing unhelpful patterns and practicing different skills in everyday life.
Her background includes clinical work with people facing loss, separation, and traumatic events. Jessica combines practical strategies with deeper narrative and psychodynamic perspectives to help people understand their patterns. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
She also uses EMDR when trauma memories are a central part of the difficulty, and motivational interviewing when people want help sorting through ambivalence and building momentum for change. Sessions focus on concrete steps and small experiments that can be tried between meetings.
People describing confusion about blended households, co-parenting strains, or loyalty conflicts often come to her wanting clearer boundaries and steadier routines. Jessica aims to help people make real adjustments that fit their daily lives, not abstract plans. To start, she asks practical questions about current roles, responsibilities, and what a better week would look like.
Approaches used and how online work can fit daily life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client so they can notice their own choices and values. It helps when someone needs a clearer sense of what they want from relationships and daily routines. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and problem behaviors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps when traumatic memories keep interrupting current life by using structured processing to reduce the intensity of those memories.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review options with the client and together they will test what helps most. That collaborative process means approaches can shift over time based on what the person finds useful and realistic.
Confirm the exact session options before booking because specific formats were not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove the need to travel. These practical benefits help people try therapy alongside work, parenting, or caregiving responsibilities rather than rearranging whole days.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
12+ years
Listed in
Colorado
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, life changes, relationship and family concerns, parenting, ADHD, and related issues.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a conversational, practical style that combines client-centered listening with concrete strategies from CBT and other approaches.
How much experience does she have?
She has 12 years of professional experience as a clinician in Colorado.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Colorado LCSW and also holds CSW, and she practices in Colorado.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions scheduled and what is the cost structure?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is for adults and is not emergency care, mediation or legal advice. If you or a child are in danger, use the emergency numbers. Find someone else by name.