About Jill
Jill Burchenal is a licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience. She works with people facing addiction, grief, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Jill aims to make beginning therapy easier by offering a calm, approachable presence and plainspoken guidance.
She uses somatic approaches alongside client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral strategies to help people notice how their body and thoughts respond to stress. Sessions often include practical tools for coping with strong feelings, and space to talk about painful life events.
Background and approach
The focus is on small, steady steps people can use between sessions. Jill has a long history supporting people through addiction, codependency, and issues tied to growing up around substance use. She also helps with parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, and career transitions.
Her practice includes work with bereavement and compassion fatigue. People who meet her report she is easy to talk to and brings steady care to the work. She aims to build trust so clients can speak honestly about what’s hard.
When a different path would be better, she will suggest other resources. Jill practices in Florida and holds the credential Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, FL LMHC MH12910. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Somatic and Talk-Based Approaches for Online Care
Jill draws on somatic work to help people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body. That can mean learning simple grounding or breath-based actions and naming physical sensations that link to memories or strong feelings. Client-centered therapy gives space for each person to be heard, and the therapist follows the client’s pace while focusing on what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. It involves practical strategies people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change unhelpful habits. Together these approaches can address trauma, grief, addiction recovery challenges, and relationship strain by combining body awareness with talk and skill-building.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose approaches that fit their goals and preferences. That process may shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options let people fit therapy into busy days, continue work from home, or follow up between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to maintain continuity of care and support ongoing progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English