About Jill
Jill Katell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people facing trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and grief. She focuses on practical steps clients can use to feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day demands. Jill aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through.
With 25 years of experience, Jill draws on a broad background supporting people with relationship strain, career transitions, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She works with concerns such as self-esteem, anger, sleep and eating problems, and the challenges that come with major life changes. Her practice also addresses attachment and identity issues like abandonment or adoption-related questions. Jill prefers a straightforward, collaborative style.
She breaks issues into clear, manageable steps and helps clients try practical strategies between sessions. Conversations are focused and down-to-earth, aiming to build skills the client can use right away. Clients often work on coping tools for overwhelming emotions, ways to improve communication, and routines that support better sleep and mood.
Jill also assists people juggling caregiving responsibilities, cancer-related stress, or long-term mood conditions such as bipolar or chronic depression. Her approach honors each person’s pace and goals. Jill encourages small changes that add up over time, and she supports clients as they test new patterns, repair relationships, and make choices that fit their lives.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Many clients benefit from approaches that focus on practical skills and present-moment coping. One common method emphasizes building concrete strategies for managing anxiety and attention differences, such as routines, behavioral activation, and step-by-step problem solving. These techniques help with daily focus, energy, and overwhelm.Another frequently used approach targets trauma and emotional regulation by teaching grounding exercises, breathing work, and paced exposure to difficult memories or triggers. This kind of work aims to reduce reactivity and improve the ability to tolerate strong feelings without becoming overwhelmed.
Finding the right approach is a joint effort. The therapist will talk with the client about what feels most urgent, try methods that match goals, and adjust over time. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit work into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, while phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera isn’t wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or between-session problem solving. These options offer flexibility so people can continue therapy around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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