I’m not interested in you sitting on the couch with me for years.
I want you to jump all in, do the hard work, heal well, and get on with your life.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist who works with adults and couples dealing with relationship distress, trauma, infidelity, grief, anxiety, depression, sexual concerns, and the complicated intersections between all of the above.
I want to understand why something keeps happening—but I also want us to do something useful with that information. Therapy with me tends to be active, collaborative, practical, curious, and pretty unlikely to consist of me nodding thoughtfully for 55 minutes.
You should feel understood in therapy. You should also eventually notice that something in your actual life is changing.
Not sure which of these is you? That is a fine place to start.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with JillYou are obviously more complicated than a list of symptoms. Still, when something really matters, it helps to work with a therapist who actually knows that particular kind of work.
I love working with couples. The stuck ones. The messy ones. The couples having the same argument for the 847th time, feeling emotionally disconnected, struggling to communicate, or wondering how they became roommates who occasionally discuss the dishwasher.
Explore Couples Therapy →When an affair is discovered, both people can feel like the ground disappeared beneath them. I help couples slow down the crisis, understand what healing requires, rebuild safety, and figure out whether—and how—they want to rebuild the relationship.
Explore Affair Recovery →Desire differences. Erectile difficulties. Painful sex. Sexual anxiety. Mismatched expectations. Intimacy that has quietly disappeared. Sex is part body, part relationship, part history, part culture, and part being human—which is why it deserves more than awkward advice and a worksheet.
Explore Sex Therapy →Sometimes your brain understands perfectly well that something happened in the past while your nervous system remains unconvinced. I use EMDR and trauma-focused therapy to help adults work through experiences that still feel far too present.
Learn About EMDR Therapy →Sometimes there is not one giant dramatic thing. You are anxious. Depleted. Grieving. Questioning yourself. Going through a transition. Or technically functioning while not exactly describing yourself as fine.
Anxiety Therapy →Therapy can also be a place to understand the patterns you keep recreating: the relationships you choose, the things you tolerate, the conflict you avoid, the boundaries you struggle to hold, and the old stories that continue running the show.
Fifteen minutes on the phone is enough to tell whether I am the right fit.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with JillI’m not a blank-slate therapist. I’ll ask questions. I’ll tell you what I’m noticing. I may challenge you when I think something important is happening—and I’ll expect you to tell me when I’m wrong.
We can be doing serious work and still laugh. Those things are not mutually exclusive.
You will always know what I'm thinking — kindly, and in plain English. I just don't think you came here to be nodded at. (Here's how I think about therapy, if you want the longer version.)
For couples dealing with a relationship crisis or a problem that needs more room, I also offer one-, two-, and three-day couples therapy intensives.
Longer, focused blocks of therapy for couples who want room to understand what is happening, work directly with difficult patterns, and practice something different without watching the clock every 55 minutes.
Explore Couples Intensives →Focused support after infidelity when you need time to stabilize the crisis, address disclosure and accountability, understand triggers, rebuild safety, and develop a clear plan for what happens next.
Explore Affair Recovery Intensives →I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and an EMDR therapist.
My graduate training is in Marriage and Family Therapy, and I also completed post-graduate training in sex therapy. I hold a separate master's degree in Nutrition Science, which gives me a broader lens for understanding the sometimes very complicated relationship between the brain, body, stress, health, and emotional well-being.
My couples work also draws from specialized relationship training, including Gottman-based approaches.
a bit about my
Years before I became a therapist, I read therapy textbooks just for the fun of it. And my idea of a great vacation is attending therapy workshops. (And yes, I'm 100% serious… it's just how I was made!)
My LOVE of reading therapy textbooks made me realize that becoming a therapist might just be something that I should consider!
I love that Marriage and Family Therapists are trained to understand problems within a broader context. They consider the larger environment, culture, and system. In school, I was taught to examine the interconnection of your life to provide holistic treatments that empower you.
Earned with my master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy · highest academic rank in the graduating class, college-wide.
Questions about my training or approach? Ask me directly.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with JillYou want empathy, but you also want your therapist to actually participate in the conversation.
You appreciate warmth, curiosity, directness, humor when appropriate, and someone who is not terribly interested in pretending the elephant isn't sitting directly in the middle of the room.
Sound like you? Let's talk.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with JillI see clients at High Thrive Counseling in Broad Ripple, Indianapolis. Our office is convenient to Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Zionsville, Meridian-Kessler and surrounding communities. Online therapy is available for clients located anywhere in Indiana or Florida, and couples travel from out of state for intensives.
Get Directions to High Thrive Counseling →Tell me a little about what is going on, what you want help with, and what you hope will be different. We can start there.
Schedule a Free 15-Minute ConsultationMy State of Florida Telehealth provider is TPMF1081. Per the state of Florida, all telehealth providers are required to share the Florida Department of Health’s website, which is: https://www.flhealthsource.gov/telehealth/
My LMFT Indiana License is 35002366A.
