About Jill
Jill Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and phobias. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.
She keeps sessions focused on each person's goals. Jill uses a mix of practical tools and listening to help people make small, steady changes.
Background and approach
She emphasizes compassion and respect while avoiding judgment. Jill draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what a person needs. That can include cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts, acceptance-based skills to reduce struggle with painful feelings, and client-centered talk to clarify values and priorities.
She tailors methods to the situation rather than following a single script. Her work has included support for people managing trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience with family-of-origin issues, communication problems, and chronic health challenges.
Jill often helps people facing abandonment fears, commitment worries, or the stress of caregiving. With 18 years of practice, Jill aims to make therapy a down-to-earth process. She helps people set realistic steps, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress.
Her approach centers on what each person wants to change and how they want to live moving forward.
Online approaches that focus on values and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life changes where someone wants to live more in line with what matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It gives clear, step-by-step techniques for reducing unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors, which can help with phobias, depression, and sleep problems.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so the person can clarify goals and build confidence. This helps when people need a supportive space to process grief, relationship concerns, or identity questions.
Jill treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss options, try methods in session, and adjust strategies based on what fits a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps match tools to real-world needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a full conversation and visual connection. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, worksheets, or when someone prefers writing instead of speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep work moving between appointments.
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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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