About Jill
Jill Jaster is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on building a respectful, collaborative therapy relationship. She centers sessions on listening first, then helps people find practical ways to feel steadier. Jill encourages clients to view starting therapy as a brave act of self-care.
She uses a client-centered approach to make space for each person’s story. That means conversations are guided by the client’s needs, not a rigid plan.
Background and approach
Jill also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills. Jill blends existential ideas about meaning with mindfulness practices that teach simple ways to manage stress and strong emotions. This mix can help when someone faces grief, life changes, or persistent anxiety.
Sessions may include grounded breathing, thought tracking, and gentle reflection about values and purpose. With 22 years of experience, Jill offers steady support for mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, panic, and substance-related challenges. She also addresses relationship strain, self-esteem, body image, and caregiver stress in individual work.
Jill practices in Iowa and holds the credential Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC. She works in plain language and aims to make therapy understandable and practical. People meet her when they want someone who listens, asks clear questions, and helps map out achievable next steps.
Approaches that inform online sessions
Jill often uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the person's priorities and are paced by the client. This approach helps people feel heard and involved in each step of the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another frequent tool; it focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and building practical skills to reduce anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jill will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust techniques over time so sessions remain focused and relevant to what the person wants to change or understand.
Online therapy with Jill is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while using approaches that address stress, trauma, anxiety, and mood concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English