About Jill
Jill Sherwood uses an approach that blends practical skills with compassionate listening. She is an Iowa licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with six years of experience. Jill aims to make therapy straightforward and usable for people under stress.
She works with people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and sleep problems. Jill also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her work includes concerns tied to chronic illness, caregiver strain, and substance use challenges.
How Jill works
Jill draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. In sessions she teaches practical skills, uses focused conversation, and helps people notice what matters most to them. She emphasizes short, concrete steps that fit daily life.
Her background spans nonprofit, residential, and clinical settings. That variety shaped her ability to support people in different life situations and levels of need. Over the years she has led groups and worked with individuals involved with human services and corrections.
Jill describes herself as warm, caring, and nonjudgmental. She aims to meet people where they are and work alongside them toward clearer goals. The first sessions typically focus on immediate concerns and on building a plan that feels manageable.
Jill lists 9 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.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Iowa |
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Online support options
Approach-oriented care delivered online
Jill uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns and focus on what matters. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values, which is useful for anxiety, grief, and life transitions. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jill will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adapt methods as needed. The process is collaborative so people can try different strategies and keep what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth or easier when a camera is not wanted, and chat or text works well for brief check-ins or on-the-go reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on useful, real-world change.
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