About Jill
Jill Sheetz is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 20 years of experience in the mental health field. She draws on long experience supporting people facing depression, anxiety, grief, and substance use concerns. Jill aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and straightforward for someone under stress.
Her approach centers on listening first. She uses client-centered methods to learn what matters most to each person and to build on existing strengths.
How Jill works
In sessions she blends practical techniques so people leave with things they can try between meetings. Jill works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, stress and burnout, eating and sleeping problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and caregiving strain. She also supports people dealing with family conflict, abandonment, divorce, chronic illness, and addiction-related issues.
Her toolkit includes cognitive behavioral strategies to address patterns of thinking and behavior, mindfulness practices to calm the body and mind, motivational interviewing for making change, and solution-focused steps for immediate problems. These are applied in a straightforward, down-to-earth way that emphasizes small, practical shifts.
People who value an empathic listener and a therapist who focuses on what can change next may find her style helpful. Jill aims to help people clarify goals, reduce distress, and build daily tools for moving forward.
Jill lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Jill's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy begins by prioritizing the person's experience and goals. The therapist listens closely, follows what matters most, and helps people decide the next steps that feel right to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jill will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to change. That process is ongoing and can be adjusted as goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be used when bandwidth is low, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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