About Jill
Jill Ertel is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with more than 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, and low self-esteem. Jill plans sessions to fit each person's life and goals.
She speaks English and offers several ways to connect, including video, phone, chat, and text. Jill approaches work with respect and compassion. She aims to create straightforward conversations that get to practical next steps.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a mix of listening, skill practice, and planning during sessions. The goal is to reduce distress and build clearer ways to cope. Her background includes supporting people through career challenges, relationship and family concerns, and major life changes.
Jill also addresses caregiving strain, workplace issues, and compassion fatigue. Substance use, anger, and codependency are among the topics she helps people manage. Jill uses methods from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and solution-focused work.
That means she listens first, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and then concentrates on small achievable changes. Sessions often include simple exercises and real-life action plans. Starting therapy is treated as a step-by-step process.
Jill tailors pace and focus to what each person needs right now. She encourages realistic goals and practical tools that fit daily life.
Approach-focused online care that fits your life
Client-centered therapy begins with the therapist listening closely to your experience and priorities. The emphasis is on understanding your perspective and shaping sessions around what matters most to you, which can help when navigating relationship stress, self-worth, or caregiving strain.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior. It uses practical exercises to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new habits, useful for anxiety, low mood, and anger management.
Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, actionable steps and immediate goals. It helps people make short-term changes and try experiments that lead to clearer results, often used for career decisions, motivation, and coping with change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jill will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first based on needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process means pacing and tools can change as progress unfolds.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be useful when video is not possible or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or quick skill practice between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and help people use therapy in ways that suit their daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English