About Jerrilynn
Jerrilynn Pratt-Mullen is a licensed mental health counselor who brings ten years of experience to her work in Florida. She focuses on helping people untangle painful patterns and find clearer ways to live. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at practical change rather than labels or jargon.
She centers sessions on building self-understanding and self-compassion. Jerrilynn helps people notice the stories they repeat about themselves and then offers tools to change those stories.
Background and approach
Clients can expect straightforward talk about behaviors, emotions, and daily habits that get in the way of feeling better. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, including addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and caregiver stress.
She also works with issues linked to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, chronic illness, and body image. Jerrilynn uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, Client-Centered work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She mixes skills-based coaching with moments of deeper reflection to help clients move from crisis to steadier ground.
Sessions aim to reduce suffering by shifting unhelpful thinking, improving emotional regulation, and strengthening daily routines. She supports people who want to stop repeating self-sabotaging patterns and build healthier ways of relating to themselves and others. The tone in her work is compassionate, motivating, and practical.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer ways of relating to themselves and others, which can aid intimacy and trust issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, useful for mood, anxiety, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust strategies over time based on what is most helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer discussions, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, home, and caregiving routines and make it easier to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida
- Languages
- English