Jill Skelton

Jill Skelton is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York. She brings 15 years of experience to sessions and focuses on concerns like relationship strain, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and anger. Jill emphasizes a collaborative approach that centers each person's strengths and goals.

Jill draws on practical methods to help people manage day-to-day problems and long-standing patterns. She listens closely, helps clarify goals, and works with clients to build skills they can use between sessions. Her work covers communication problems, attachment concerns, family of origin issues, and money stress among other life challenges.

Her clinical background includes time in psychiatric settings and roles as a clinical supervisor. That experience informs how she assesses mood disorders such as bipolar and depression, and how she supports people dealing with substance use and recovery. Jill aims to make the process straightforward and understandable.

In sessions she creates a warm, respectful space for talking through difficult feelings. She describes therapy as a mutual process where the client’s own strengths are central. Jill emphasizes listening, authenticity, and practical steps toward change.

People who come to her work on intimacy-related issues, career concerns, pregnancy and childbirth transitions, and coping with life changes. She also helps with stress management and self-esteem work, pairing short-term strategies with attention to deeper patterns when useful.

Approaches that translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people decide what matters most to them. It helps when someone needs support in sorting feelings and finding their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical techniques for managing anxiety, mood, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean trying short goal-focused work first, or combining skill building with deeper exploration over time.

Confirm the specific session options before booking since formats are not specified in this profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also supports using worksheets, practical tools, and real-life problem solving between meetings so therapy can be applied to everyday situations.