“Let them arrive here, whatever they are, is my first motto. And my second is let them stay.” —Charles Baxter
Being a person is hard.
You don't have to go it alone.
Jill is a Brooklyn-based Clinical Social Worker specializing in perinatal and reproductive mental health, relationships, and life transitions.
Hi, I’m Jill.
Being a person is hard. I’m here to walk with you through growth, self-reflection, challenge, and change. Together we will identify obstacles, develop goals, and move through discomfort to get closer to your dreams, to your desires, and to the life you want to live.
The road can feel long, but you don’t have to go it alone.
I specialize in perinatal and reproductive mental health, and provide support to postpartum women, those contemplating pregnancy or navigating fertility issues, and people dealing with miscarriage or infant loss.
I work with adults and emerging adults confronting relationship challenges or in the midst of major life transitions.
My Story
A love of writing, people, and storytelling led me to my first career in journalism. I learned to connect and build trust with people quickly, listen objectively, and stay present in the face of adversity and discomfort.
While working as a reporter, exposure to injustices ignited a deeper calling. One rooted in direct practice, human connection, and systemic change.
After spending two years as a Peace Corps volunteer, I embarked on a career in social work. This is where my passion for people, stories, and connection finally found its home. I spent 10 years working with adolescents in New York City public schools and have nearly 15 years of experience offering compassionate care to women navigating life and relationship transitions.
I believe positionality, environment, and identity deeply impact the way we experience the world and in turn, shape the stories we tell about ourselves and our lives.
What’s your story?
Individuals
Lean into discomfort. Partner in change. Reconnect with joy.
Finding a new therapist can be a monumental task. I am committed to making the process as easy and supportive as possible.
I offer a free 15-minute phone consultation for all potential new clients. This is a time to share your experiences, challenges, and goals, as well as an opportunity to answer any questions you have.
My work is collaborative and deeply relational, and my approach is rooted in authenticity, transparency, humor, and compassion. I am fiercely committed to creating a warm, welcoming space for you to practice self-reflection, confront challenges, and engage with vulnerability.
Therapeutic coaching for clients outside of New York is available. This offering enables people who face geographical restrictions imposed by state lines to still access supportive care and services. Additional information is available in FAQs.
The Nesting Place
Perinatal Support for Women, Moms, and Moms-to-Be
The experience of becoming a mom is as unique as the individual. But the care and support required to confidently navigate this major life transformation can’t happen in isolation.
The Nesting Place provides women, moms, and moms-to-be with room to explore big questions about identity, motherhood, and the next chapter. It’s a soft space to land for every woman on her perinatal journey.
Small, intimate, therapeutically-informed groups provide weekly opportunities to build intentional community with others who are trying to conceive, currently pregnant, or new moms. Facilitated conversations using circle practices, and magical questions unlock vulnerability, invite self-compassion, and deepen connections.
The goal isn't to have all of the answers, but to feel less alone with the questions.
For those trying to conceive (TTC), the road to pregnancy can be equal parts uncertainty and hope. Emerging challenges and doubts during this emotionally complex time may go unvoiced. As a result, navigating this life phase can be incredibly isolating.
From questioning the body's abilities, to experiencing distance with a partner, to sitting in unnamed tensions among friends, the TTC landscape is fraught with big and complicated feelings. This intimate four-week small group offers women in the midst of their pre-pregnancy journey an empathic space to explore the ups and downs of IVF, fertility, and TTC. It’s a space to share thoughts, fears, and feelings out loud.
Pregnancy, planning for delivery, and prepping for parenthood can be as much cause for celebration as anxiety inducing. Changing bodies, shifting hormones, and transforming roles and identities offer new landscapes for self-discovery and exploration.
This intimate five-week group fosters deep connection among currently pregnant people. It’s a collaborative space to process real-time physical and familial change in community with other moms-to-be.
Weekly compassionate conversations invite vulnerability amid profound biological change, and offer a healing space for future moms to be seen and heard.
From shifts in body and identity to altered friendships, new emerging dynamics with primary partners or extended family, the first 18 months of motherhood can be A LOT. Postpartum is as beautiful as it is disorienting. This six-week small group offers guardrails to the unknown by providing new moms a soft place to land.
At a stage of life when so much can feel unpredictable, scary, exciting, and uncertain, this small group offers new moms a container for the overwhelm. A space for internal reflection and external connection. Where vulnerable, open, and honest conversations can cultivate a sense of community meant to extend beyond these six weeks.
Your Questions, Answered
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Therapy is a tool for healing, transformation and personal growth. Together we will form a therapeutic alliance to promote change. You’ll identify challenges and I’ll apply evidence-based therapeutic interventions, self-reflective practices, and mindfulness techniques to co-create a roadmap to achieve your goals. There may be some unexpected turns, but you won’t have to go it alone.
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You arrive as your full self and I’ll provide the space and time to explore what’s really going on. We will take time to discuss what brings you to therapy and identify what you’re looking for in a therapeutic relationship.
I’ll share my approach to the work and answer questions about you have about what collaboration could look like.
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My work is relational, psychodynamic, and feminist. It integrates various aspects of change theory, cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based therapy, reflective journaling, physical movement, narrative therapy, family systems, anti-racist, anti-oppressive practices, and keeps the whole person (you!) at its center.
Nesting Place small groups utilize circle practices and magical questions to access vulnerability and foster deep connection.
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Traditional psychotherapy utilizes the exploration of personal history, past relationships, and patterns of behavior to encourage self-reflection, promote insight, and foster healing. It is deeply relational work that is often long term.
Therapeutic coaching enables individuals who face geographical restrictions imposed by state lines to still access supportive care. Sessions can feel therapeutic in nature, but this style of coaching centers on the present. Clients develop goals and gain specific skills to navigate difficulties or manage life transitions.
Because therapeutic coaching is different from therapy, it not covered by insurance. This modality is also not a good fit for those experiencing crisis, or who require a higher level of care.
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Yes! I am licensed in New York State to accept Aetna, Oxford, Oscar, and United Health Care. I can also provide super bills for out-of-network insurance providers.
Because The Nesting Place small groups are therapeutically informed but not group therapy, insurance cannot be used for this service.
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I offer both virtual and in-person individual sessions. My office is located in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
The Nesting Place small groups and therapeutic coaching are offered only online at this time.
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Yes! I am a SIFI Certified clinical social worker in New York state and hold a Post Masters Certificate in Clinical Supervision from New York University. I offer supervision to new practitioners accumulating clinical hours for licensure, as well as seasoned mental health providers looking to deepen their practice. I also provide off-site supervision for community and school-based organizations.
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