About Jill
Jill McCabe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, ADHD concerns, addictions, and relationship and parenting stress. Her tone is warm and practical, aimed at people who need straightforward support during hard times.
Jill meets people where they are and listens closely to their story. She uses plain talk and tailored strategies rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting, skills practice, and discussion of what is getting in the way day to day. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, and major life changes such as divorce and blended family challenges. She has also supported people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, and complicated family histories like adoption or abandonment issues.
Jill blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when they help clients make sense of meaning and identity. The focus is practical - learning small, useful skills and shifting patterns that cause pain.
People often come for help with communication problems, low self-esteem, career stress, and coping after loss. Jill also offers coaching-style support for life transitions and compassion fatigue. Her style is respectful, interactive, and aimed at helping people find workable steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client sets priorities and the therapist listens and reflects. This approach helps people who need emotional support and clearer thinking about what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It uses practical exercises and skill-building to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change habits that get in the way of daily life.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep, focus, and stress management. These tools pair well with skill-based work from CBT and the supportive listening of client-centered care.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, school, caregiving, or busy schedules. Video calls let therapists see nonverbal cues and hold deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coaching-style guidance, and ongoing check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a real-life routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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