About Jill
Jill Wasserman brings a client-centered style to therapy. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with eight years of experience. Jill focuses on practical steps people can use right now to reduce stress and manage mood swings.
She meets people where they are and tailors conversations to immediate concerns. She commonly helps with anxiety, depression, and bipolar mood concerns. Jill also works with addictions and impulse-related struggles, including drug and alcohol issues and process addictions.
Background and approach
Parenting stress, grief, and relationship strain are frequent topics she addresses in sessions. Jill uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are offered for emotion regulation and managing intense reactions. Client-Centered Therapy guides how she listens and builds a plan. Her practice also attends to co-morbidity and personality concerns, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic, social anxiety, and women's issues.
She factors in life changes, immigration-related stress, guilt and shame, and challenges linked to narcissistic dynamics. Jill aims to make treatment practical and grounded in everyday life. Jill’s sessions are available in English and carried out online in formats that fit different needs.
She emphasizes respectful, sensitive interaction and works collaboratively to set goals and steps forward.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Jill combines client-centered listening with structured skills work to meet immediate concerns. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and helping the person guide the pace and topics of sessions, which helps when someone needs acceptance and a steady listener. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and introduces small experiments and tools to change them, often used for anxiety, panic, and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and strong mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jill will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps. This collaboration lets the therapist and client decide whether CBT exercises, DBT skills training, or a client-led discussion is the best next step.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different ways of working until the best fit is found.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English