About Jill
Jill Hazzard is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 35 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or family strain. Her focus includes parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma, and mood differences.
She aims to make the first step feel more manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. Jill listens with respect and sensitivity and adapts sessions to what each person needs.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools rather than jargon. That might mean working on ways to manage anxious thoughts, building better communication skills, or finding small routines that improve daily mood. Her approach blends client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
She also draws on solution-focused methods and parts work from Internal Family Systems to help people sort through patterns that feel stuck. These approaches are chosen to match what a person brings to sessions and what they want to change. Over decades of practice she has helped people navigate major life changes, parenting stress, caregiving strain, and complicated family histories.
She also supports people facing eating concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, and career challenges. Jill is comfortable addressing a wide range of mood and personality difficulties. Sessions are tailored and collaborative.
She works with each person to set clear goals and practical steps. The aim is steady progress that feels realistic for day-to-day life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered work emphasizes listening and following a person's priorities. In practice this means sessions focus on what matters most to the client and move at a comfortable pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns and try different, practical behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, includes skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, with hands-on techniques that are easy to practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, daily life, and what has helped or not helped before. Then she will recommend strategies and adapt methods as progress or needs change, so the plan fits the person's preferences and circumstances.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and use real-time interaction for skill teaching. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coping prompts, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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