- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Jean
Jean Odachowski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage parenting challenges, relationship strains, trauma, and everyday stress. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at practical change that fits family life.
She blends attachment-based and client-centered approaches to strengthen connection and trust between parents and children. Jean also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors.
Background and approach
For people processing traumatic events she offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, to reduce the hold of upsetting memories. Sessions are set up to be collaborative. Jean listens first, then helps set clear goals and small steps to reach them.
She uses accessible language and focuses on skills that can be practiced between sessions, such as consistent limit-setting, coping tools for anxiety, and ways to rebuild closeness in strained relationships. Her background includes long-term work with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, postpartum depression, pregnancy and childbirth challenges, and recovery after sexual assault and abuse.
She also supports people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and disruptive mood challenges such as DMDD. Jean aims to be approachable and steady during difficult seasons. She encourages parents and individuals to take one manageable step toward change and offers guidance along the way.
What Jean works with
Everything Jean lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Jean helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexual assault and abuse
Approaches Jean lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that support parenting and trauma work
Jean uses attachment-based and client-centered work to restore connection and build trust. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns of relating and helps parents develop responses that feel safer and more predictable for their children. Client-centered therapy creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space where parents and individuals can talk through worries and be heard.She also integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thought and behavior patterns that increase stress or anxiety. CBT helps people try small behavior changes and notice the real-life effects. For processing traumatic memories she uses EMDR to reduce the intensity of disturbing images and sensations and to help people regain forward momentum.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jean will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change as progress unfolds, and treatment always focuses on practical steps to help day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone is a simple alternative when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work well for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy family schedules and ongoing life demands.
Questions people ask about Jean
What concerns does Jean commonly address?
She works with parenting challenges, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, grief, anger, self-esteem, career strain, depression, and coping with life changes.
What is Jean's therapeutic style like?
Her approach is collaborative and practical. She listens first, then helps set goals and teaches skills people can use between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Jean has 17 years of professional work experience providing counseling in a variety of settings.
What credentials and region apply to her practice?
She holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC, and practices in Virginia.
Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Jean offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Jean?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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