Robert Odell, LICSW
Collaborative alliance
The therapeutic relationship is a collaborative alliance where we work together towards your goals. I develop it using curiosity – never moralizing judgment.
Accurate picture
I seek to develop an accurate picture about you, understand the problems you present and effectively address them with you. I ask questions about your life experience and background, and map how you affect those close to you.
Our relationship
Our relationship should help you better understand your feelings, stimulate your thinking, connect with your body, expand your choices and see your overall progress. Success is usually about how you organize or integrate your thoughts, emotions, body sense and behavioral choices. This can only happen when you feel genuinely cared for.
Over 24 years of service and education have guided me to be proficient in serving kink-identified, authority transfer and ethically non-monogamous (ENM) clientele.
Since 2005 I have worked with our armed services veterans. I helped start a community program to serve their mental health needs and have trained extensively in military culture.
Trauma informed
Traumatic events can be deeply disorganizing & disorienting to a clear sense of self. Therapy reconstructs a clearer self, reorganizing the parts of personality that make up a whole person.
Client diversity
I have long welcomed the greatest possible diversity of clients into my practice. This includes racial, cultural, gender, sexual identities, body types and a wide range of relationships.
Accountability
I am accountable to your feedback about our relationship, including any experience of racism or prejudice you believe you’ve experienced.
2366 Eastlake Ave. E., #221, Seattle, WA 98102, United States
