About Jill
Dr. Jill Palmer is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of practice. She works from Connecticut and helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting pressures, and major life changes.
Jill uses practical, down-to-earth tools so people can feel steadier day to day. She draws on several therapy methods to match each person’s needs. Sessions focus on small, doable steps like shifting unhelpful thoughts, clarifying values, and trying new behaviors.
Background and approach
Conversations are respectful and goal-oriented, with space for people to name what matters most to them. Jill’s background includes long experience providing direct mental health care across a range of concerns. She has helped people manage panic, mood problems, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and the aftermath of traumatic events.
Her work also covers topics such as body image, isolation, money worries, and relationship communication problems. In meetings she uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered approaches among other tools. These methods are used to reduce overwhelming reactions, build coping skills, and support clearer decision-making.
The plan evolves as progress is made. Many people come to Jill wanting relief from anxiety and better ways to handle stress. She supports parents facing the strain of raising children and helps people sort through divorce, forgiveness, guilt, and control issues.
Her style is practical, compassionate, and focused on helping people move forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and is commonly used for anxiety and stress-related struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to reduce panic, ease depressive patterns, and change unhelpful thinking that keeps problems going.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's priorities. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what is said, and helps people uncover their own solutions rather than imposing directions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jill will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the approach evolves with the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face to face when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions are useful when a quieter space or less data is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, reflection between sessions, and easier scheduling on busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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