Jill Hazzard, LMHC

Jill Hazzard is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and complex relationship and family concerns. She brings a calm, respectful approach and focuses on clear, usable steps people can try between sessions. Jill emphasizes listening first, then building a plan that fits each person’s life and goals.

With 35 years of practice, she has worked with many kinds of struggles, including parenting strain, grief, trauma and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing mood disorders, ADHD, and problems with anger or self-esteem. Her work covers a broad range of family-of-origin and blended family concerns as well.

Jill uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered methods to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation and Solution-Focused techniques to set short-term goals. Internal Family Systems informs how she helps people understand different parts of themselves.

Sessions focus on practical tools and clear communication. Jill tailors conversations and plans to what each person needs, with an emphasis on small changes that add up. She encourages steady progress and checks in on what is or isn’t working.

People work with her to sort through parenting challenges, family conflict, relationship dilemmas, grief, and career or identity concerns. Jill aims to make therapy a straightforward process that fits into everyday life.

How therapy approaches meet you online

Jill often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes that ease symptoms. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into small, workable steps.

She also works from a Client-Centered perspective, which means sessions start with listening and reflecting so people feel understood before making plans. That approach helps when someone needs space to sort feelings and priorities. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used as needed to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jill collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and day-to-day life. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps and what doesn’t, so the plan stays practical and relevant.

Online therapy lets people connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is handy for brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These formats offer flexibility so people can try different ways of working until they find what fits.