About Jill
Jill Wheeler is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Texas. She brings 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, worry, depression, grief, and big life shifts. Her manner is warm and down-to-earth, and she focuses on building a strong working relationship before moving forward.
Jill uses somatic ideas alongside client-centered and cognitive approaches to help people connect what they feel in their bodies to what they think and do.
Background and approach
She draws on attachment-based work to understand relationship patterns and on CBT and DBT skills to teach practical coping tools. Sessions are aimed at noticing patterns, trying small changes, and practicing skills between meetings. Her background includes supporting people with parenting challenges, career stress, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She also helps people who struggle with abandonment, blended family transitions, body image, codependency, communication problems, and family-of-origin issues. Jill frames problems simply and focuses on what can be done next. In the first meetings she prioritizes listening, clarifying goals, and creating a plan that fits each person.
The approach is collaborative and paced to the individual. Jill encourages straightforward conversation about what works and what does not so the plan can be adjusted. People meet her when they want practical skills, clearer relationships, and help making meaning after a loss or change.
She aims to support steady progress and to keep work doable between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Jill draws from somatic ideas and attachment-based work alongside client-centered methods to guide sessions. Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily sensations and connect them to emotions and behaviors, which can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and stress. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early bonds shape current connections. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and meeting someone where they are to build trust and direction.Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. Jill will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit their needs and goals. She encourages feedback so the approach can be adjusted over time and so clients know why certain tools are being used.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let someone choose whether to use video or audio depending on comfort and bandwidth. Licensed professionals can still teach grounding practices, guide behavioral experiments, and coach skills between meetings in virtual sessions, with the same focus on practical steps and relationship work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English