About Jill
Jill Katell helps people who are dealing with trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, stress, and difficulties with self-esteem. She also supports people facing career challenges, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the effects of life changes. Jill holds a CA LMFT and brings many years of practice to her work.
Her style is straightforward and warm. She aims to build an open space where people can talk without fear of judgment.
How Jill works
Sessions focus on what matters most to each person and on practical steps to feel better day to day. Over 25 years of clinical experience shape her approach. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood, attention, eating and sleeping concerns, and complex histories such as abandonment or attachment issues.
Jill also works with people affected by caregiving stress, cancer, aging concerns, and co-occurring conditions. Clients can expect conversations about immediate coping strategies alongside longer-term goals. Jill pays attention to communication patterns, commitment worries, and how past experiences influence present choices.
She helps people develop tools for anger, bipolar mood shifts, and attentional challenges like ADHD. Jill practices in California as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care topics, autism spectrum concerns, dependent or avoidant personality issues, and body image or eating-related struggles.
She encourages steady progress and practical changes that fit each person’s life.
What Jill works with
The areas below are the ones Jill selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing patterns that keep problems active. One common approach teaches concrete coping skills to manage anxiety, stress, and mood swings; it helps people regain control over daily routines and reactions. Another approach looks at how past attachment and abandonment experiences shape current relationships and self-worth, offering ways to shift those patterns and try new behaviors. These methods can help with trauma, self-esteem, relationship struggles, and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a partnership. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try a method and adjust it over time. This collaborative process helps find what fits best rather than relying on a single technique from the start.
Online therapy here can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be helpful for quick reflections, follow-up notes, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.
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