About Jill
Dr. Jill Hackley helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or unsure about parenting and family strain. She is a clinical psychologist with two decades of experience and a direct, practical style that aims to make therapy usable for day-to-day life.
She draws on straightforward approaches like cognitive behavioral methods and client-centered work to help people notice patterns, try small changes, and build new habits. Sessions focus on clear goals, simple tools, and real situations parents and caregivers face.
Background and approach
Jill keeps explanations plain and offers steps people can try between sessions. Her background includes a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Community Counseling from Drake University. She holds licensure as a Nebraska Psychologist 964 and Minnesota Psychologist LP6593 and has worked across several Midwestern states.
That clinical training supports work with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD concerns. Jill has substantial experience with adoption, foster care, and attachment-related issues. Much of her earlier work was with children and adolescents in inpatient and residential settings, which informs her practical approach when helping parents and caregivers manage behavior and relationship challenges.
In sessions she combines listening with doable strategies. People who want clear steps and a calm, steady guide for parenting stress, family problems, or attention-related challenges will find her approach focused on what helps in daily life.
Approaches that fit online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. The goal is to make sessions feel collaborative so people can set their own goals and move at a comfortable pace. This approach helps when someone needs support processing emotions or building confidence.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing small behavior changes, and using short exercises between sessions. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and attention-related challenges.
Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which mix of listening and skill-building feels most useful and practical.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into real life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper interaction helps. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins, brief problem-solving, and support between longer sessions. These options help people keep momentum and practice new skills in their everyday settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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