About Jill
Jill Ertel is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of professional experience in Indiana. She focuses on common struggles like stress and anxiety and aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable. Jill communicates with respect and compassion and adapts sessions to each person's situation.
Jill helps people facing addictions, anger, and low self-esteem. She also supports work-related stress, career questions, and challenges tied to parenting or family roles.
Background and approach
Her practice includes concerns such as caregiver strain, body image, codependency, and workplace issues. Her approach centers on listening first. Jill uses Client-Centered techniques to follow each person's lead and build trust.
She includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools to identify thinking patterns and try new behaviors that reduce distress. Solution-Focused Therapy is part of sessions when clients want practical steps and quick goals. Jill works with people to set small, realistic changes they can try between meetings.
Progress is tracked in concrete ways so people notice what helps. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Jill will tailor the pace, topics, and exercises to match what a person needs in the moment.
She encourages people to be active partners in the work and to bring what matters most into session conversations.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Jill uses Client-Centered Therapy to let people set the pace and focus of sessions while she offers empathy and understanding. This approach helps when someone needs a safe, steady space to talk through stressful feelings.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve coping.
Solution-Focused Therapy appears when clients want short-term, practical steps. The work focuses on clear goals and simple actions to try between sessions so people can notice progress quickly.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be a collaborative decision. Jill will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then tailor techniques that fit each person's needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls suit people with limited bandwidth, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain steady contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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