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Individual Therapy

Dr. O’Donnell works with individuals in a process of strength-based self-exploration to address obstacles and patterns interfering with individuals’ abilities to achieve their goals. This active and collaborative approach can involve working through past experiences that are impacting their ability to engage fully with the present. It can also involve bringing understanding to parts of experience that may be outside their awareness, to help individuals identify their emotions, needs, and longings. At times she may also provide psychoeducation and practical tools for managing symptoms and alleviating distress. Ultimately, individual therapy can help facilitate moving towards greater authenticity, self-compassion, a sense of life meaning, and deeper connections with others.

Couples Therapy

Dr. O’Donnell works with couples to clarify what they are looking for from their relationships, reconnect with their strengths, garner curiosity and understanding about one another, and identify and disrupt current patterns of disconnection in their relationships. Dr. O'Donnell helps each partner better understand how their emotions fuel their conflicts, and deepen their understanding of one another. Couples learn to express their wants and needs directly and with greater vulnerability and are supported through healing from painful experiences in their relationship history. Couples may  learn skills to communicate more effectively and deescalate conflict. Couples therapy often involves increasing intimacy, communication, connection, and trust.

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Professional Consultation

Dr. O’Donnell will provide consultation and supervision to licensed mental health professionals on an as needed basis or as an ongoing engagement. Consultation is focused on enhancing their clinical skills as well as helping therapists get through impasses in their clinical work with the goal of facilitating their increased effectiveness supporting positive treatment outcomes for their clients. She has particular expertise in supervision of couples therapy.

TREATMENT

Commonly Treated Individual Concerns

  • Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress Reactions (Child and Adulthood)

  • Grief & Loss

  • Anxiety & Stress Management

  • Depression & Mood Disorders

  • Learning Disabilities 

  • Impact of Societal and Global Stressors (e.g. global warming, racism, sexism)

  • Impact of Work on First Responders (e.g., veterans, police officers, firefighters) 

  • Women's Health/ Perinatal Mood Disorders

  • Coping with Life Transitions

  • Identity, Including Sexual and Gender Identity

  • Existential Concerns

  • Self-Esteem

Commonly Treated Couples Concerns

  • Marriage & Relationship Issues

  • Increasing connection and trust

  • Navigating life transitions as a couple

  • Communication

  • Premarital Counseling 

  • Intimacy Concerns, Including Sexual Intimacy  

  • Clarifying relationship and family goals as a couple

  • Infidelity and Affairs 

  • Family Conflict

  • Considering Separation 

Some Approaches Used

  • Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapy Approaches 

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)

  • Mindfulness Informed Approaches 

  • Trauma Informed Approaches (e.g., CPT) 

Services: CV

At present, Dr. O'Donnell is conducting all sessions virtually. To schedule a consultation, you can contact Dr. O'Donnell here and she will reach out to schedule a time for a brief phone call. The reason for this initial call is to help clarify whether Dr. O’Donnell and the services she provides are the right fit. If you and Dr. O'Donnell agree to go forward following the brief call, you will schedule an initial appointment together at that time. The first few sessions will focus on gaining more information about current concerns and goals, as well as determining the next steps for therapy.  Treatment will be tailored to meet the particular needs, circumstances and nuances of each individual or couple.

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