About Jodi
Jodi Colbert is an Illinois-licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She frames sessions so clients can speak plainly about what feels hard and what they want to change. Jodi keeps the pace steady and collaborative so people feel heard and ready to try new steps.
Her method is conversational and respectful. She treats each person as the expert on their life and builds goals from their strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer thinking, along with exploring patterns that keep problems alive. Jodi uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps when thoughts and behaviors are keeping someone stuck.
Client-centered and narrative approaches create space to tell and reframe difficult stories. Mindfulness tools are used to calm intense feelings and increase present-moment coping. She has five years of clinical social work experience working with trauma and abuse, mood concerns, panic, postpartum challenges, and relationship and attachment issues.
Jodi also addresses topics like codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, and life purpose. Her background includes supporting people with Veteran and Armed Forces issues. People meet with Jodi to work on clear goals, get relief from symptoms, and practice new ways of relating to themselves and others.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful, with plans shaped to each person's life and priorities.
Approaches and what online therapy can offer
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the individual. It helps people feel understood and builds plans that fit their values and goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. It teaches concrete steps to test unhelpful thoughts and to build different habits, which can help with anxiety, panic, and mood concerns.
Existential therapy helps people wrestle with questions of meaning, choice, and responsibility. It can be useful when someone is facing life transitions, questions about purpose, or feelings of isolation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That process may shift as progress is made.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when face-to-face interaction matters, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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