About Jill
Jill Markowitz is a licensed mental health counselor who has been practicing for five years. She works from Connecticut and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Jill also supports members of the LGBTQ+ community and people coping with trauma, addiction concerns, or attention and mood challenges.
Jill listens first and asks questions to understand each person's experience. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what feels hard.
Background and approach
Alongside listening, she offers practical tools clients can use between sessions to handle symptoms and everyday stressors. Her work is collaborative. Jill treats clients as the experts on their lives and combines their insight with her clinical perspective.
Together they set goals and check progress as therapy continues. She prepares people for the fact that change often takes time and sometimes brings up difficult feelings. Sessions typically focus on building coping skills, improving emotional awareness, and addressing patterns that keep problems going.
Jill helps people break large problems into manageable steps and practice small changes that add up. She encourages regular review of goals so the work stays relevant to each person's life. Jill aims to leave clients with a stronger set of skills they can carry forward.
Her approach is practical and person-centered, helping people move toward clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better day-to-day functioning.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
Many clients find benefit from evidence-based approaches that focus on skills and understanding. One approach Jill often uses emphasizes building coping skills and practical strategies for managing anxiety, mood shifts, and stress. This helps people gain tools they can use day to day to reduce overwhelm and handle difficult moments. Another commonly used approach focuses on exploring thoughts and feelings to increase awareness of patterns that keep problems going. That work helps people notice unhelpful habits and try new ways of responding.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jill works with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts methods as progress is reviewed. The aim is to find what feels useful and sustainable for each client's life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy schedules. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English