Jessica Odell, LCSW, CSW

Jessica Odell is a Colorado licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She offers a calm, respectful approach and focuses on tailoring sessions to each person’s needs. Jessica aims to support people who are ready to make changes and build a more fulfilling life.

She uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies to address daily struggles. Sessions often involve identifying small steps clients can try between meetings and checking what works. Jessica draws on approaches like client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

For those coping with trauma or painful memories, she incorporates EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) when appropriate to reduce the intensity of distressing experiences. Motivational interviewing and narrative therapy are also part of her toolkit to help clarify goals and reframe personal stories.

Jessica also helps people facing relationship tensions, parenting stress, identity and LGBT questions, and life transitions. She works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and isolation. Aging and geriatric issues are listed among her additional focus areas.

Her style is warm and focused on collaboration. She listens for what matters most to each person and then builds a plan together. Practical progress and learning new ways to cope are prioritized over jargon or lengthy assessments.

Approaches that translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the person. In online sessions this looks like reflective conversation, asking questions to clarify values, and helping set goals that feel doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can try small experiments to change patterns. It often includes homework like tracking thoughts or testing new behaviors between sessions. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is used to reduce the strength of traumatic memories by pairing targeted memory work with guided bilateral stimulation and can be adapted for remote work when clinically appropriate.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jessica works collaboratively to figure out what methods fit a person's goals and preferences. She checks in about what feels helpful and adjusts the plan as people learn what works for them.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also let people continue therapy through life transitions or while living in different parts of Colorado, depending on the agreed format.