Jill Hazzard

Jill Hazzard is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of professional experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, and depression. Jill aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming and offers steady support as people work toward clearer goals and better daily coping.

Jill approaches conversations with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She listens first, then tailors sessions so they match each person's needs. That can mean focusing on how thoughts and behaviors interact, practicing new ways to manage intense feelings, or looking at family patterns that affect day-to-day life.

Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person in the room, along with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and internal family systems ideas to understand different parts of a person’s experience.

Across sessions Jill emphasizes practical steps people can try between meetings. These might include brief behavioral experiments, emotion regulation skills, or short problem-solving plans for family or parenting conflicts. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

People often come for help with grief, trauma or abuse, eating concerns, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar and ADHD-related challenges. Jill will work with an individual to set realistic goals and adjust the approach as needs change.

Her practice is grounded in many years of direct work with clients in Florida, and she invites people to begin by describing what matters most to them so a plan can be shaped together.

How Jill’s Methods Translate to Online Work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers simple exercises to change patterns that increase distress. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that can be practiced between meetings.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. Jill will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their goals and daily life. She adjusts the plan as progress is made and as priorities shift, so therapy is a team effort rather than a fixed prescription.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and offer shorter check-ins when needed. It can also support ongoing skill practice between meetings, such as homework from CBT or DBT exercises, while still allowing the therapist to guide and adapt the plan based on what is working.