- Trauma-informed approach
- Parenting support
- Attachment focus
About Jean
Jean Odachowski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma, and anxiety. Jean aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about difficult feelings and start making practical changes.
She draws on approaches such as EMDR to help process traumatic memories and attachment-based ideas to strengthen bonds between caregivers and children. Jean also integrates client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques to address negative thinking and build useful coping skills. Her background includes work with parenting interventions that emphasize consistent limit setting and clearer parent-child interactions.
Jean has supported people dealing with grief, depression, compassion fatigue, and the stress of life transitions. She also lists adoption and foster care, attachment issues, postpartum and perinatal concerns, ADHD, and histories of sexual assault among her areas of focus. Her practice aims to match therapeutic tools to each person’s situation rather than following one single method.
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions tend to focus on small, actionable steps alongside deeper processing when needed. People often work on communication, emotion regulation, and ways to rebuild trust and connection.
To begin, prospective clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule based on the therapist’s availability. Jean emphasizes steady progress and supports people as they try new ways of relating to themselves and others.
How Jean's approaches work in remote sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes building safer, more predictable relationships. In practice this means talking about patterns of connection and trying small changes in how people relate to one another to reduce reactivity and increase trust. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process distressing memories so those memories feel less overwhelming and upsetting in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change mood and stress levels.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Jean will listen to your goals, review what has or hasn’t helped in the past, and recommend approaches that fit your needs. Together you can try techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Session formats are not listed in the therapist’s biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Many people find online work helpful for fitting sessions into busy schedules, keeping check-ins brief when needed, and maintaining continuity during life changes. Licensed professionals can adapt EMDR, attachment-focused conversations, and CBT exercises for remote settings so that therapeutic work continues even when meeting in different locations.
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Experience
17+ years
Credentials
Virginia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns can be addressed here?
Jean works with issues such as relationship struggles, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. She also lists adoption and foster care and attachment-related concerns among her areas of focus.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The approach is collaborative and practical, using client-centered listening alongside approaches like EMDR and cognitive behavioral techniques to process trauma and change unhelpful thinking.
What is Jean's professional background?
She has 17 years of professional experience working with parenting, relationship, and trauma-related concerns, including use of parent-child interaction strategies and trauma processing methods.
Where is Jean licensed and located?
Jean holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in Virginia and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with Jean?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How is cost structured for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions operate through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.