About Jill
Jill Clark is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, steady support. She uses straightforward conversation and goal-focused work to help people manage anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and relationship struggles. She has 18 years of experience in a range of settings, including shelters, clinics, schools, and independent practice.
That background gives her a broad view of how life events affect daily functioning and relationships. She listens first and meets each person where they are.
Background and approach
Jill draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in the client’s priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new skills. Emotion-focused and mindfulness approaches help when feelings feel overwhelming.
Her areas of focus include grief, addictions, parenting challenges, eating and sleeping concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and intimacy-related problems. She also addresses adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, and the fallout from divorce or separation. Sessions aim to be practical and outcome oriented.
Jill helps people set small, achievable goals and tracks progress together. She offers coaching-style guidance when clients want tools for coping and life changes. Jill practices in Texas and provides services in English.
Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on collaboration and steady problem solving.
How Jill’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s goals and priorities. Online sessions using this approach start with what matters most to the client and shape the work around their needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used in video or phone sessions, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps identify and name core emotions that drive relationship patterns and personal distress; it can be useful when strong feelings get in the way of connection or decision making.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and try methods that fit those goals and the person’s style. That keeps work collaborative and flexible so adjustments can be made over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick coaching, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Texas, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English