What I Offer
About Me
My grounded presence, genuine care, and insightfulness help you feel heard and held in your journey of healing and growth. With my support, you will learn how to relate to familiar struggles in new ways and make changes to move toward a more satisfying and meaningful life. My skillful and compassionate approach allows you to feel challenged and cared for. Learn more...
Specialty Areas
- Anxiety and depression
- Transitions, big and “small”
- Eating and body-image issues
- Relationship and communication difficulties
- Trauma
- Parent Coaching
My Approach
My style is an eclectic blend of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Gestalt, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Somatic Therapy. I trust in and elicit your inherent wisdom, helping you shift away from internal judgment, harshness, and rigidity and toward greater curiosity, kindness, and flexibility. You will discover and align with your core values and learn how to follow through with the choices that create more connection and fulfillment.
Testimonials
Marti Weiskopf, Therapeutic Placement Consultant, Desert Sun Consulting
I have known and worked with Jill Dawson for over a dozen years. There is not a more revered human being I know. Jill is loved by her co-workers, clients, parents of clients, colleagues, family and friends. People are naturally drawn to her due to her authentic, kind and thoughtful demeanor. She is present and mindful with whomever she is talking. The listener feels heard and truly cared for.
Jill has a way of drawing people in and gently developing a relationship with them that becomes honest and meaningful. Her clients feel supported and held in a way where they can be authentic and real without judgement. Jill encourages her clients to explore what they truly value and to evaluate what things are getting in the way of them reaching those things.
Jill is especially gifted in working with clients with trauma, lack self-love, struggle with anxiety and depression, are confused about their identity and have strained family relationships. Jill does dynamic family work and all the parents that I know have raved about and respected her more than any other family therapeutic experience they have gone through.
Jill is my number one preferred therapist to work with my adolescents, young adults and their parents. I highly recommend her and her caring heart.
Brooks Witter, LPC
I had the privilege of working closely with Jill for 6 years in an intensive treatment program working with young adults and families. Jill possesses an incredible blend of skills and sensitivities that make her an excellent clinician for a wide range of clients and families. Her analytical skills and clinical intuition are spot on, while her warm heart and boundless compassion allow her to provide supportive and challenging interventions and feedback that are palatable, actionable and universally well received. She is a remarkable individual whom I would trust with anyone for whom I care and wish the best.
LeAnn Woods, LPC
Jill is a wonderful therapist, colleague, supervisor, and overall human being! Her uplifting presence and thoughtfulness positively impact the people and environment wherever she goes! She is incredibly skilled, insightful, and perceptive in her work as a therapist in Boulder. I have seen her work magic with young adults with anxiety and families with her extensive experience navigating difficult situations—offering genuine care and wise guidance to new, more satisfying lives and outcomes. You will definitely want Jill on your team and in your corner!