Works with
- Anger
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
How Jill works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Jill
Jill Katell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anger, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She works with individuals facing trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, career struggles, parenting strain, and mood challenges such as depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
Her approach aims to make the first step feel less daunting for someone seeking change. Jill creates a calm space where people can talk through painful memories and present problems.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try different ways of thinking and behaving. Her style is direct and empathetic.
Jill balances gentle support with concrete strategies to manage strong emotions like anger and overwhelm. She offers pacing that matches each person - sometimes gentle reflection, sometimes active problem solving. Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns linked to relationships, attachment, caregiving stress, body image, and eating and sleeping difficulties.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, mood, and coping skills in everyday life. People who come to Jill can expect a collaborative process. Together they identify priorities, try out new tools between sessions, and track what helps.
Her goal is to help clients build skills they can use long after therapy ends.
What Jill works with
Everything Jill lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Jill's practice.
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Jill uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on reducing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping. One common approach helps people learn skills to notice triggers, manage anger, and practice calmer responses in stressful moments. Another approach targets trauma and painful memories by helping clients process difficult experiences and build new ways of relating to those memories.Choosing the right method is part of therapy. Jill works collaboratively to find the best fit based on a person’s goals, symptoms, and preferences. She reviews options together and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and try out skills in real life while fitting therapy into daily routines.
Questions people ask about Jill
What concerns does this therapist address?
She supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, stress, anxiety, anger, grief, relationship and family issues, self-esteem, career challenges, parenting strain, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, and related concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is both empathetic and practical. She listens carefully, sets clear goals, and offers concrete skills to manage emotions and solve everyday problems.
What is her professional background?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of mental health and life issues, including trauma, mood disorders, and caregiving stress.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is an LMFT licensed in California and practices with that professional credential in the state.
Which languages are offered and are international clients supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What online session formats are available?
Clients can meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their needs.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.