About Jillianne
Jillianne Boyd is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 16 years of clinical experience. She takes a human-centered approach that emphasizes empathy and listening. Jillianne aims to help people manage stress and anxiety while reconnecting with what matters most in their lives.
She focuses on helping people move through trauma, grief, and relationship pain. Jillianne blends client-centered work with emotionally-focused and existential ideas to support healing and growth.
Background and approach
Sessions often start with what feels most urgent to the person and move at a steady, manageable pace. Her work uses a strength-based lens to build practical coping skills. Clients learn tools to calm strong emotions and reduce reactivity in daily life.
Jillianne also helps people examine values and purpose so choices line up with what they care about. Trauma and loss are common reasons people come to her. Jillianne incorporates mindfulness and body-informed methods to reduce overwhelm and to release held tension.
She supports people processing sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, and other forms of trauma. She also addresses relationship struggles, communication problems, shame and guilt, and compassion fatigue. Jillianne has experience with issues related to LGBT identity, veteran and armed forces concerns, addictions, bipolar disorder, and major life transitions.
Her California practice includes work with a wide range of emotional challenges. Jillianne speaks English and works with people from diverse backgrounds. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
Bringing client-centered and emotionally-focused work online
Jillianne uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person in front of her. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people notice their own strengths so they can make choices that fit their values.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which helps people identify and express core emotions and strengthen emotional bonds. EFT is useful when relationship patterns or attachment needs are creating repeated pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jillianne collaborates with each client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face connection for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a busy schedule. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins and continued reflection between longer sessions.
These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during life changes or when in-person visits are not possible. Licensed professionals can still build strong therapeutic relationships and work toward meaningful goals using these formats.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help address?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Can people who live outside the U.S. work with her?
Which session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.