About Jill
Jill Rountree is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, or substance use. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at making sessions feel practical and doable for people juggling busy lives.
Jill draws on a client-centered stance that keeps the person's goals at the center of each session. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to link thoughts, feelings, and actions and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach mindfulness and distress tolerance skills.
Background and approach
For people with traumatic memories, she can include EMDR techniques after establishing safety and coping strategies. Her background includes work in correctional facilities, outpatient care, and integrated health settings. This mix of experience shaped her practical approach to coping with life changes, grief, addiction, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
She speaks plain language and aims to translate therapeutic ideas into everyday habits people can try between sessions. Jill trained in sociology and social work in Michigan and now lives in the Traverse City area. She is also a Registered Yoga Instructor and mixes an interest in breath and body awareness into some sessions when it fits the client's goals.
Outside of clinical work she enjoys cooking, reading, and spending time outdoors with her family and animals. Parents often find her down-to-earth manner helpful when facing stress, anger, or issues around parenting and relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Jill uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change patterns in thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or depression. CBT sessions often include practical exercises and homework to try between meetings. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills that reduce reactivity in the moment.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jill partners with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration can mean trying a mix of skill-based work, talk therapy, or trauma-focused techniques and checking in regularly about what helps most.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and guided skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or to fit a shorter break in a busy day. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions, track progress, and get brief support without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into varied schedules while still working toward clear goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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