About Jillian
Jillian Sharp is a licensed clinician who focuses on stress and anxiety among other concerns. She brings a calm, relational style and believes people can heal and grow even when life feels overwhelming. Sessions are conversational and practical, aimed at helping people manage day-to-day strain and feel more steady.
Jillian uses a strengths-based, client-centered approach that puts the person's goals first. She listens for what matters most, then helps set small, clear steps that are realistic to follow.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on building trust so change can happen at a comfortable pace. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and behaving. Mindfulness techniques are also offered to help people notice stress responses and practice short grounding skills.
Emotion-focused ideas are used when the work needs attention to feelings and connection. Jillian has three years of clinical experience and holds licensure as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Minnesota LICSW, and as a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner, Nebraska LIMHP. She practices from Nebraska and offers therapy in English, including to clients outside the United States.
People often come to her for help with grief, coping with life changes, self-esteem, depression, trauma, eating concerns, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. In early sessions she focuses on what feels most urgent, then tailors methods so progress fits each person's life and pace.
Approaches for online work and how they help
Jillian commonly blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and emotion-focused ideas. Client-Centered Therapy means sessions center on the person’s goals and perspective, with the therapist listening closely and following the pace the client prefers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and adjusting behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people tune into their feelings and improve how they connect with important relationships, which is useful for grief, relationship strain, and emotional pain.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Jillian will talk with each person about goals and try approaches that match those needs. Together they will adjust methods over time so the work stays relevant and helpful rather than sticking to a single technique.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow typical face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for quick reflections, notes between sessions, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options help people access consistent care from wherever they are located.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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