Jill Wasserman, MA, LPC is a fully licensed counselor with nearly a decade of experience. She is deeply committed to facilitating long lasting relief and change with adults, adolescents, school-aged children and parents. Jill’s unique approach to treatment is integrative, creative, and strengths-based, ensuring your treatment plan reflects your individual needs and life experiences. There are many aspects of our lives that contribute to negative emotional, behavioral and relationship patterns. Jill works alongside clients to identify what is contributing or causing these patterns so that insights and skills that promote growth and health are developed. Clients often remark that working with Jill doesn’t ‘feel like therapy’, because while they are addressing tough emotional, behavior and relationship challenges, they often find laughter and joy during therapy.
Jill helps individuals manage and work through a wide range of challenges including anxiety, depression, ADHD, life stress and trauma, addiction and compulsive behavior patterns, personality disorders, OCD, difficult family dynamics and relationship struggles as well as various other co-occurring medical and mental health difficulties.
Jill’s treatment approaches include, but are not limited to, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness Practice, as well as various Family Therapy approaches including Collaborative Problem Solving. Jill works together with clients to identify their specific goals and utilizes ongoing assessments to ensure therapy is going in an effective direction.
While earning her master’s degree in clinical psychology with a counseling specialization and concentration in addiction treatment from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, Illinois, Jill’s research on the connection between empathy and aggression in children was utilized to implement an after-school, socio-emotional development program. At the outset of her career, Jill worked with criminal justice populations providing voluntary and court-mandated substance use remediation services. Then, while working as an outpatient therapist on a college campus, she provided substance use services to students, implementing a toxic drinking death prevention program on campus, and helping to establish a collegiate recovery community. Armed with this knowledge and experience with individuals across the lifespan, Jill provides expert level care for a wide range of emotional, behavioral and relational disorders.
Whether you’re seeking support and guidance through a specific, challenging situation or are ready to make a change in your life to address longer standing mental health difficulties, Jill would be honored to work with you or your loved one.
