About Jill
Jill Sexton is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience. She works with people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing big life changes. She also helps clients dealing with relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, mood concerns, and identity questions.
She approaches counseling in a down-to-earth way. Jill focuses on understanding each person's story and what gets in the way of change. Sessions emphasize practical skills, clearer communication, and steps clients can use between meetings.
How Jill works
Her background includes studies in psychology and community counseling, and many years supporting people through trauma, adoption-related concerns, and loss. Jill has worked across a range of mood and personality concerns such as bipolar, depression, avoidant personality traits, and anger management. She draws on several common therapy approaches to shape sessions.
Jill uses techniques that help people notice thoughts and values, build stronger emotional bonds, and develop skills to cope with distress. Work often includes improving family communication, addressing attachment issues, and managing symptoms like anxiety or ADHD-related struggles. Jill aims to make therapy collaborative and practical.
She helps people set clear goals and practices simple tools that fit daily life. The focus is on steady progress, not perfection, so clients can move toward healthier relationships and greater emotional balance.
Jill lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and finding direction during life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and communication, and it can help with family conflict, parenting concerns, and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors that fuel mood and anxiety problems. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jill will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean blending approaches or trying different techniques until the best fit is found. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work in real time. Phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or a way to keep progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum toward change.Start online instead of waiting
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