About Jyl
Jyl Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strain, and life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on building a trusting relationship so clients can speak honestly about what matters to them. Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on realistic steps clients can use between sessions.
Jyl trained in social work at the University of Nevada, Reno and Boise State University.
Background and approach
She has seventeen years of experience in clinical practice and ran her own practice for eleven years. During that time she worked with people dealing with depression, trauma, grief, relationship and family struggles, and parenting challenges. Her style blends Attachment-Based ideas with client-centered listening and practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
She draws on mindfulness practices to help people manage distressing thoughts and emotions. The Gottman Method also informs her approach when relationship communication and interaction patterns are the focus. In an initial phase she prioritizes building trust and clarifying what a person wants to change.
Then she and the client identify doable goals and practice skills to meet those goals. Sessions often include concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and strengthen communication in close relationships. Jyl also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, compassion fatigue, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
She works from Idaho and offers care in English for people seeking structured, warm, and practical help.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and behavior; online sessions can help identify patterns and practice safer, more supported ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy centers on respectful listening and helping people find their own solutions; this approach works well in conversation-based video or phone sessions where exploration and validation are primary. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for managing anxiety, depression, and anger through structured exercises and homework.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then choose or combine approaches together. That collaborative process helps ensure the plan fits the person's life and what they want to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, written coaching, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy routines and keep consistent momentum toward their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Nevada
- Languages
- English