About Jill
Jill Arland is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed, scared, or alone. She talks plainly and listens closely so people can feel heard. She aims to help clients find more joy and connection in their lives and relationships.
Jill brings 11 years of experience to her practice. She centers sessions on each person’s needs and works at a pace that fits them. Jill offers empathy, encouragement, and practical tools for day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and difficulties with self-esteem or anger. She also helps people facing life changes, career questions, parenting strain, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to chronic illness or caregiving.
Jill uses a person-centered approach and draws on evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally focused work, and EMDR. She explains strategies clearly and practices them with clients during sessions so skills are usable between meetings. Jill sees adults across the lifespan, including young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults.
She works from Indiana and provides services in English. Her goal is practical progress - small changes that add up to better daily functioning and stronger relationships.
How Jill’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting connection. Online sessions follow that same idea by making the conversation about what matters to the client and adapting pacing and tools to their goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior. In remote sessions CBT includes practicing skills during calls or messaging, setting small homework tasks, and tracking changes between meetings to reduce anxiety or depression.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to address trauma by working through distressing memories with guided techniques. When done online the therapist guides the process verbally and with accessible tools so clients can process traumatic memories from home while following clear steps.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. Jill works collaboratively to choose and adjust methods based on a person’s needs, preferences, and goals. She explains options and invites feedback so the plan evolves with progress.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - offer flexibility for busy schedules and different communication styles. Video calls suit in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, live chat and texting allow brief check-ins and ongoing support. These options make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, North Dakota
- Languages
- English