About Jessica
Jessica Odell is a licensed social worker in Colorado with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, or big life changes. Jessica aims to meet each person where they are and build a plan that fits their situation.
She uses straightforward, respectful conversation rather than jargon. Sessions are shaped around the client’s goals and pace. Jessica emphasizes practical steps alongside understanding feelings and past experiences.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several approaches, including client-centered methods that follow the person’s lead and cognitive behavioral techniques that target unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also offers EMDR-informed work for people who have trauma memories that keep coming back. Jessica supports people dealing with relationship difficulties, parenting stress, identity and LGBT concerns, and challenges like abandonment, attachment, or adoption-related issues.
She also helps with anger, low self-esteem, and problems tied to isolation or life transitions. Conversations with Jessica aim to be collaborative. She listens for strengths, builds coping tools, and practices concrete skills together.
She explains options clearly and adjusts the approach as needs change.
Approaches that guide online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person’s lead. The therapist offers empathy and reflective listening to help people feel heard and to clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process distressing memories so they feel less triggering; it is often used when trauma memories interfere with daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through options with each person and decide together what fits best for their goals and comfort. This collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t possible, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, handle shorter check-ins, or work when bandwidth is limited.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English