About Jill
Jill Brown is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She focuses on everyday struggles like sleep problems, low self-esteem, grief, relationship pain, and parenting strain. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping someone feel steadier in daily life.
She uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to address unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and dialectical behavior strategies are woven in when they suit a person's goals. Jill centers sessions on what each person wants to change and how they want to live differently. Jill has worked with issues that include trauma and abuse, chronic illness and pain, caregiving stress, and adjustment after big life changes.
She also supports people managing ADHD, intimacy concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her work often addresses family of origin issues and communication problems that affect close relationships. Sessions are offered from her New York practice and are shaped around each client's pace and preferences.
She emphasizes respect, patience, and a nonjudgmental attitude in sessions. People who reach out are treated as partners in finding workable steps forward. Jill encourages straightforward goals and small, achievable changes.
She aims to help people reconnect with values, improve coping, and regain a sense of control after difficult periods.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jill often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, sleep issues, and low mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on identifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when uncomfortable feelings remain, which can help with stress, chronic pain, and relationship choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jill will discuss goals and preferences during early sessions and adjust methods as needed. The plan is collaborative, so clients help choose which techniques feel most useful for their situation.
Online therapy with Jill is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or need less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it possible to keep regular contact and to practice new skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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