About Jill
Jill Sexton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people navigate big, painful life moments. She works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, and questions about relationships and identity. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy easy to understand and use.
Jill draws on a mix of approaches to fit the person in front of her. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
She brings attachment-focused work to examine relationship patterns and how early bonds shape today's reactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people accept difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful actions. Her background includes a long career in counseling and education in Alabama.
Jill has 18 years of experience as a counselor and a master’s degree in community counseling. She combines practical techniques with attention to each person’s story and values. In sessions she listens carefully, helps people name what’s getting in the way, and teaches skills to manage intense feelings and conflict.
She also supports people working through life transitions, career stress, parenting strain, and challenges tied to adoption, attachment, or family of origin issues. Jill offers a supportive, down-to-earth presence and works with clients to set clear goals. She helps people take small steps that lead to noticeable change over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. ACT can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting attention to meaningful behavior rather than only symptom control.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns with partners, parents, and friends. This work helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and teaches skills to build safer, more connected interactions.
Finding the right approach is often part of the work. The therapist will ask about your goals, your day-to-day struggles, and what methods feel most comfortable. Together you and the therapist will try methods, adjust strategies, and pick what best supports progress toward your goals.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match busy lives. Video lets you use visual cues and teach in-session skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and flexibility when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English