Jill Clark , LICSW, LCSW

Jill Clark is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience supporting children, teens, and adults across a range of settings. She has provided care in child shelters, hospitals and clinics, private practice, and schools, developing a broad perspective on how life events shape emotional health. Jill holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW - the LICSW denotes a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and the LCSW denotes a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - reflecting her advanced training and clinical experience.

Jill approaches therapy from a holistic, person-centered stance, meeting each client where they are and honoring individual strengths and rhythms of change. She offers counseling for depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem concerns, relationship and family difficulties, addictions, and life transitions, and also works with issues such as parenting, career stress, ADHD, and intimacy challenges. Her additional focus includes attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, body image, and guilt and shame.

Clients can expect a genuine, down-to-earth partner who emphasizes practical coping skills and growth. Jill combines client-centered listening with evidence-informed strategies to help people break out of limiting patterns and move toward healthier functioning. She aims to collaborate with clients to set goals, build resilience, and foster sustainable change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Effective Online Care

Jill draws on client-centered therapy to prioritize the individual experience, offering a supportive environment where clients' perspectives guide the pace and goals of work; this approach is helpful for people needing validation while exploring personal values and coping strategies. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-related symptoms. In addition, Jill incorporates elements of emotionally-focused therapy to help partners and families better understand underlying emotions and strengthen attachment and communication.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jill will work with each person to select and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress and circumstances evolve.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule or to meet from different locations. Licensed professionals and therapists can deliver the same core therapeutic work through these formats, allowing continuity of care and convenient access to weekly sessions and between-session support.