About Jill
Jill Chestang is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical support for people coping with stress and anxiety. She writes short-term plans with clear steps and helps clients build everyday skills. Her tone is straightforward and calm, aimed at people who want workable tools for feeling better.
Jill draws on client-centered therapy to shape sessions around each person’s priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior skills are offered when people need emotion regulation and coping tools, and solution-focused work helps set small achievable goals. Her practice addresses common life challenges like grief, depression, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She also helps with workplace stress, relationship communication problems, money worries, and issues tied to identity and discrimination.
Seasonal Affective Disorder and concerns around aging and midlife transitions are part of her experience as well. Jill has 12 years of professional experience and holds an MI LPC, which signals her licensure in Michigan. She aims to treat people with respect and sensitivity, listening carefully before shaping a plan that fits their needs.
In sessions she focuses on skills building and realistic steps rather than lengthy theory talks. Clients can expect a collaborative approach where progress is measured by concrete changes. Jill encourages people to take manageable risks, practice new skills between visits, and notice even small improvements.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first and shapes sessions around what matters most to them; online sessions follow that same idea by letting conversations focus on personal priorities and practical next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood and then practice new patterns; that work adapts well to video or phone sessions with homework and check-ins. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can be practiced between online meetings and reinforced during shorter messaging check-ins. Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will review concerns, try methods that fit the client’s needs and goals, and adjust strategies as progress is evaluated. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most useful. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when body language helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option when video isn’t practical. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers typing to talking. These options offer flexibility for people juggling work, school, caregiving, or other commitments.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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