Jill McCabe
Practical family-focused therapy for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jill
Jill McCabe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience helping families and parents facing stress and change. She offers a steady, practical approach that parents can use right away. Her tone is warm and direct, with an emphasis on clear steps and honest conversation.
Jill helps with common problems parents bring up, like anxiety, depression, sleep trouble, and parenting strain. She also supports people managing grief, trauma or addiction in the family.
Background and approach
She pays attention to relationship patterns, blended family issues, and the challenges that come with major life transitions. Her style centers on listening closely and responding in a straightforward way. Sessions mix problem-solving tools with time to make sense of feelings.
Jill uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking patterns that keep problems going and Client-Centered techniques to make space for what matters most to each person. She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas to help clients look at meaning, identity, and long-term change. Mindfulness skills are used to reduce stress and improve focus when life feels overwhelming.
Jill adapts each plan based on a family’s unique needs and rhythm. Jill is licensed in New York as an LMHC, license number NY LMHC 004038. She offers sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging so families can choose what fits their schedule.
To begin, a parent completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that works for them.
Therapeutic approaches and online care for families
Jill uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy as core parts of her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so parents and caregivers can speak openly about hard issues.She may also bring in mindfulness skills to help calm stress and improve focus. These approaches are explained in simple terms and tested in ways that fit daily family life, like short at-home practices or new ways of talking with a partner or child. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; Jill works with each person to decide what feels most useful based on goals and preferences.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, so families can pick what fits their routine. These formats allow for flexible scheduling, quick check-ins between sessions, and ongoing support when juggling childcare, work, and appointments. The focus remains on practical strategies and clear steps families can try between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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