About Jill
Jill Brown is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. She also supports individuals dealing with ADHD, self-esteem struggles, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, and trauma. Jill practices in New York and brings 18 years of clinical experience to her work.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She listens first to understand what matters most to the person sitting across from her.
Background and approach
Together they set clear, achievable goals and work on small changes that add up over time. Jill uses practical therapeutic tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior techniques, and mindfulness practices. She adapts those tools to fit each person’s needs rather than following a rigid plan.
Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings to feel steadier in daily life. She emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s pace. Conversations are nonjudgmental and focused on what a client wants to change.
Jill also draws on motivational interviewing and a client-centered stance to support decision-making and confidence building. Many people come to Jill for help navigating big life changes, family difficulties, chronic stress, or concerns tied to identity and intimacy. Her approach aims to make therapy practical, understandable, and doable for people with busy lives.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps toward what matters to them. Online ACT sessions often include simple exercises and values-based action plans to try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; in video or phone sessions a therapist and client break problems into steps and practice new coping strategies together.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose or blend methods and adjust them as needed so sessions stay useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face without a commute. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick reflections, homework support, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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