About Mark
Mark Odell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. He is based in Florida and offers individual counseling to adults. He focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
He draws on straightforward, conversation-based sessions. He listens first, then helps clients set small, doable goals. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve everyday functioning.
Mark will look at how past family dynamics shape current patterns.
Background and approach
He pays attention to issues like abandonment, people-pleasing, codependency, and communication problems. That helps people notice repeated behaviors and make different choices. He uses several established approaches, including client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques.
He also incorporates EMDR for trauma-related memories when appropriate. These methods are adapted to each person rather than applied the same way to everyone. Mark supports people dealing with relationship strain, career stress, grief, addictions, and compassion fatigue.
He works with adults on eating and body-related concerns, anger, and coping with big life changes. The focus is on skills that help in daily life while also addressing deeper issues. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
He helps clients identify priorities, practice new responses, and track progress over time. The goal is clearer thinking, less reactivity, and more balanced living.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship. The therapist follows the client's concerns and helps them set priorities, which can be useful for anxiety and daily stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it often uses exercises and homework that transfer well to online work. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses distressing memories and strong emotional reactions, and some elements can be adapted for video sessions when appropriate.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be done together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend methods that fit. That collaborative planning helps tailor techniques so they match a client's needs, whether the emphasis is skills practice, deeper memory work, or a supportive listening space.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging helps with ongoing reminders and short reflections. These options make it easier to keep consistent sessions, fit therapy into busy days, and continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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