Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Jyl works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Idaho, Nevada
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Jyl
Jyl Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage strong emotions and everyday stress. She focuses on practical support for anger, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting strains. Jyl speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel calm and useful from the start.
Jyl earned a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Nevada, Reno and a Master of Social Work from Boise State University. She holds LCSW credentials in Nevada and Idaho.
Background and approach
For eleven years she ran her own practice, working with people around depression, anxiety, parenting and family struggles, trauma, grief, and life changes. Her approach centers on building a trusting working relationship first. She uses strengths-based methods and draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Sessions also use client-centered listening so people feel heard and understood. Jyl offers concrete tools once goals are clear. That can mean short exercises between meetings, communication skills for home, or steps to manage intense anger when it arises.
She treats the work as a team effort and helps clients track small changes that add up. Practical concerns like coaching for life purpose, coping with compassion fatigue, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and communication problems are within her focus. Jyl aims to make therapy usable for everyday life.
What Jyl works with
Everything Jyl lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Jyl's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
Approaches Jyl lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Jyl blends methods that focus on connection, practical change, and present-moment awareness. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships shape feelings and behavior and helps people build steadier emotional responses in current relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person sitting across from the therapist, emphasizing listening, respect, and the client’s own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify patterns of thinking that lead to strong reactions and introduces small experiments to test different responses.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and how you prefer to work. Together you’ll try methods that feel most useful and adjust them over time based on what’s working for you.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins or written tools to track progress. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practice new skills between meetings.
Questions people ask about Jyl
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
She works with stress, anger, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting and family concerns, ADHD, self-esteem, and related issues like adoption and attachment questions.
What is the therapy style like in sessions?
Sessions are conversational and client-centered, mixing listening with practical skill-building. Cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness techniques are used to change unhelpful thoughts and reactions.
How long has this therapist been practicing?
She has 17 years of experience, including eleven years running her own independent practice before offering online services.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with NV LCSW and ID LCSW credentials and is based in Idaho.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.