About Jill
Jill Sexton is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, grief, and trauma. Jill also supports clients dealing with parenting challenges, relationship and communication problems, ADHD, and issues around adoption and attachment.
Jill takes a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. She listens first and helps clients name what feels overwhelming. Conversations may include exploring body-based signals, values, and everyday thoughts to find manageable steps forward.
Background and approach
Jill aims to make therapy feel understandable and manageable for people under pressure. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Auburn University and a master’s degree in community counseling from Auburn University Montgomery. She holds the Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor credential, listed as AL LPC LPC03233.
Those credentials support her clinical work in Alabama and with international clients who choose online sessions. Jill blends somatic ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused work when helpful. That means she pays attention to how the body, values, and relationships shape problems and recovery.
Techniques are chosen to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single script. In practical terms sessions can include talking, guided attention to bodily experience, and concrete exercises to try between meetings. The goal is steady progress on clear goals like reducing panic, improving sleep, repairing trust, or managing mood.
Jill focuses on small, achievable changes that add up over time.
How Jill’s approaches translate to online work
Jill uses somatic-informed work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body, then pair that awareness with simple practices to reduce tension and reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and take small, values-driven steps even when feelings are hard. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships to improve communication and restore a sense of safety in connections.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Jill listens to each person's history, current worries, and goals, then suggests methods to try together. She revisits what works and adjusts the plan based on feedback so therapy fits the person's life and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video lets people work face-to-face from home, phone can feel more personal, and messaging supports short check-ins or written reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to continue steady work on mood, anxiety, relationships, and parenting without frequent travel.
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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
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English