Jill Rountree

Jill Rountree is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with ten years of hands-on experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anger, or big life changes. She listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Jill aims to make therapy approachable for someone worried about managing mood, relationships, or daily demands.

Jill has worked in correctional facilities, outpatient clinics, and integrated health settings. That variety shaped a straightforward style that blends calm listening with concrete tools. Sessions often include talking through immediate problems, practicing skills, and setting small goals to test between meetings.

Her clinical toolkit includes client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and EMDR for processing trauma. She also draws on motivational interviewing to help with substance use and behavior change. Those methods are used to match the work to what each person needs right now.

Jill grew up in southeastern Michigan and now lives near Traverse City with her family. She earned a sociology degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Social Work from Wayne State University. Outside therapy she teaches yoga, cooks, reads, and spends time outdoors with her children and animals.

People often come to Jill for help with anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, parenting strain, anger, ADHD, and relationship issues tied to intimacy or infidelity. She offers a steady, practical approach aimed at making small changes add up over time.

How Jill’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and moving at their pace. It emphasizes listening, understanding priorities, and shaping sessions around what the client finds most important. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and habit change. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to process past trauma by pairing trauma recall with guided bilateral stimulation and safe-place techniques before deeper processing.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This lets the work stay focused on what helps most in day-to-day life.

The original profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make regular check-ins easier to fit into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports doing hands-on practice from home and integrating tools between sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, client-centered work, and EMDR techniques for online settings while tailoring the pace to each person’s needs.