Christina Odwyer, LGSW
Therapist
Christina Odwyer, LGSWHolistic Psychotherapist & Trauma-informed Counselor
"Do you feel stuck or weighed down or more disconnected from yourself than ever before? Many people carry the effects of trauma, anxiety or stress without realizing how much it shapes their daily life."
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Issues Christina helps with
Young Professionals
College Students
Who she works with
Christina works with adults—especially young professionals and college students— who may be functioning well on the outside but feeling anxious, burnt out, disconnected, or weighed down by the effects of trauma, anxiety, depression or ongoing stress. she also helps clients navigating a major life transition, perfectionism, relationship stress, or the lingering impact of childhood and intergenerational experiences. Her care is culturally responsive and LGBTQ+ affirming, and she works with people whose backgrounds and identities shape how they experience all of it.
She also works with clients exploring how cultural identity, racial identity, neurodivergence, family expectations, and past experiences shape the way they move through the world and its impact on their everyday life.
How she works
Christina’s approach is collaborative, grounded, and trauma-informed. She helps clients make sense of what’s beneath anxiety, burnout, relationship stress, and feeling disconnected from themselves. In sessions, you work at a pace that feels supportive to you to process difficult experiences, recognize the patterns that keep you stuck, and develop coping strategies that fit your life.
Her work draws on attachment-informed therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and somatic interventions. Sessions with Christina can help clients move beyond simply understanding their experiences intellectually and toward understanding who they are, their emotions, needs, and their nervous system with greater clarity and care.
Christina sees therapy as a partnership: she brings the clinical tools and structure, and you remain the expert on your own experience. Her care is culturally responsive and LGBTQIA+-affirming. She creates a safe, non-judgmental space where clients do not have to minimize their history or their ambition, but can instead integrate both to find stability and fulfillment.
"Every great therapy sessions needs a relaxed, human space, one where you can bring all of yourself, judgment-free, imperfections included."
Training & Credentials
Master of Social Work, George Mason University
Licensed Graduate Social Worker — Washington, DC, practising under clinical supervision
Outpatient psychotherapy with adults, adolescents and children
Trauma-informed care for anxiety, depression and mood-related concerns
Culturally responsive and LGBTQ+ affirming practice
Earlier clinical work with refugees and asylum seekers, supporting trauma and displacement-related concerns
What a first session is like
After your free 30-minute consultation, if it feels like the right fit, you will schedule your first full 50–55-minute session.
For individual therapy, the first few sessions are a chance to begin developing a fuller, more holistic understanding of what you are facing now. Christina will learn about your history, when the current concerns began or became more difficult, what has shaped them, and what you have already tried. Together, you will start to make sense of the larger context around your experiences and identify where the work can begin.
If that sounds like what you are looking for, book a 30-minute consultation call with Christina.
Questions people ask Christina
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Yes. Christina accepts several insurance plans, including Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield and CareFirst. You can book here and just let them know in your consultation call that you’d like to use insurance, and they’ll make sure you’re set up for billing that way.
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Being stuck rarely looks like falling apart. More often it looks like doing everything you are supposed to do while feeling flat, tired, or further from yourself than you used to be. That is worth taking seriously, and it is much of what Christina works with.
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It’s okay to feel this way, and it is not something to sort out in advance. The free consultation call exists for exactly this — you can ask whatever you want, including questions about how therapy works, before deciding anything.
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Yes. Her practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and culturally responsive, which means your identity and background are respected, understood and honored in your work with Christina.
Book a free 30-minute consultation call
No waitlists and no phone tag. Pick a time that suits you, and Christina will call.
