Jill Markowitz
Calm, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jill
Jill Markowitz is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with five years of clinical experience. She practices from Connecticut and brings a calm, practical style to sessions. Jill listens closely and focuses on clear next steps rather than jargon.
Her work centers on helping people who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Jill welcomes conversations about relationships, parenting, identity, and coping with change. She aims to build a straightforward plan with skills that clients can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Jill emphasizes that clients are the experts in their own lives and that therapy is a team effort. She uses that collaborative stance to set realistic goals and steady progress. In the room she balances listening with offering tools.
Those tools often include ways to manage strong emotions, reduce worry, and handle difficult moments as they come. She also addresses concerns related to self-esteem, addiction, trauma, eating issues, anger, career stress, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD when they arise. Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs.
Jill prepares people for the fact that change takes time and that hard feelings can surface during the process. She supports clients through those moments while helping them build skills they keep after therapy ends. Jill holds credentials as LMHC and LPC and works with English-speaking clients from Connecticut.
Her approach aims to be warm, direct, and focused on usable strategies for everyday life.
Practical approaches used in online sessions
Jill works with evidence-based techniques that focus on skill building and emotional regulation. One common approach is helping people learn coping and relaxation strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These are straightforward practices you can use during tense moments or before difficult events.She also focuses on problem-solving and goal-based work to handle life transitions, career pressures, and relationship concerns. That involves breaking big problems into small steps and testing changes between sessions so progress is clear and measurable.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Jill treats therapy as a collaboration and will help determine which techniques fit best based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews progress and adjusts the plan as needed so the work stays useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life gets hectic. They allow people to work on skills in the moment and follow up between appointments in ways that match their daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
Next step
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