About me
Hello. I am Dr. Jillian Graves, a licensed clinical social worker (LMSW), in the state of Michigan. I have experience working with adults, adolescents and families in both group and individual sessions. I have the most experiencing working with anger management, trauma, anxiety, parenting issues, mood disorders and workplace issues. I earned my MSW at Smith College and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in social work at Bryn Mawr, where my dissertation work focused on emerging adult (18-29-year-old) siblings of people with schizophrenia
I spent eight years working in the juvenile justice clinic working with adolescents and their families to help assess and manage a broad range of issues. Since I left the court clinic, I have spent two more years working on an outpatient basis with a broad range of adolescent clients on an outpatient basis, including academic problems, dealing with anger and violence, coping with trauma, anxiety, depression and family conflict. I am a great believer in collaborating with parents while also respecting and supporting a teenager's autonomy and ability to collaborate in their own treatment.
I believe that the most important work in therapy is the relationship. Establishing trust and solid communication is important and with that in mind, therapy is a collaborative process where I am here to help you set goals, provide support and offer insight. I have an eclectic approach to therapy, using approaches such as psychodynamic theory (including attachment theory), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, solution-focused treatment and narrative approaches. Making meaning, improving communication and understanding the ways that our personal histories shape us are important areas to focus on in therapy as well.
I look forward to working with you.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma, Abuse
- Anger management
Addictions , Grief , Parenting issues , Self esteem , Career difficulties , Bipolar disorder , Depression
Years of Experience: 21
Services offered
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Licensing
MI LMSW 6801100672
Reviews
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dr. Jillian Graves. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Teen Counseling might be different.
Dr Jillian started therapy with my daughter when she was struggling. As a parent it’s so deflating when you feel powerless to heal your child’s pain, however, having Jillian’s care and attention made that feel more manageable. Her attention to detail and structure for her sessions was so individual and met the needs of my daughter really well. It was lovely watching my daughter come out of her sessions feeling like she had just left the burden of her worries behind. Words can’t express the gratitude I feel, thank you so much for helping my daughter find her way again.
We’ve had only two sessions but I feel heard and respected. It’s been nothing but a positive experience.
Dr. Graves has been a huge help in validating my concerns and offering solutions to issues I have wrestled with for a long time. She hears me and cares. She ways seems to have a fair response laced with the challenge to grow. I appreciate that I got matched with her
Dr Graves has been hugely helpful to me. Whether it is with coping with a particular ongoing issue, taking a step back to try to understand my responses to events and sometimes just talking like an old friend. She has very empathetic while offering things to try and some possible insights into situations which is a huge help
Dr Graves is a wonderful counsellor, she helps me to evaluate all the different perspectives when I have a concern, and will even point out a perspective I may not have considered before.
Dr. Graves is the best therapist I've worked with. Very professional, resourceful and well read. She has a calming presence and is a great listener! She's been here for me and helped through a lot, I'm grateful.
Graves is intelligent, tactful, kind, and most importantly, a good listener. Speaking with her was extremely comforting, as her expertise made her able to articulate my specific worries when words or sense failed me.
Dr Gaves has approached our therapy sessions in a way that I’ve always been looking for in therapy, but could never quite vocalize. She approaches the situation with empathy, but also offers real, practical, well articulated advice; always putting an active effort into making sure she and I both understand the situation and are on the same page. She’s provided me with real tools and action plans to not just better understand what I’m feeling/why I’m feeling that way, but also to be better equipped in HOW to approach the situation, and what to do about it moving forward.
Honestly I don’t know if I just got really lucky or if all the councillors in teen counseling are this good, but our therapy sessions together have legitimately made such a huge difference in my life already. In just a few weeks, I’ve gotten more out of my therapy sessions with her than I have in 6 years with my original therapist. Thank you so much for all of your help!
Dr. Graves is a guiding light in a dark time in my life. I have tried counseling various time over the last few years and this is the first time I have managed to ‘connect’ with someone. She doesn’t rush you, she patient and her advise is sympathetic and constructive. I was in such a desperate state when I started with Dr Graves, I was suffering anxiety attacks in the middle of the night, I had physical signs of anxiety, I was so overwhelmed and just could get things straight in my mind. I was suffering with work stress and grief. I am currently I’m in a position where my thoughts are becoming clearer and I am able to talk about my issues. I’m still a way off but I’m beginning to see the light.
Dr Graves is brilliant! Supportive, affirmative and a wonderful communicator- she truly helped me work through a serious issue in my life. I can’t thank you, enough Dr Graves!!!
Dr. Graves has helped me immensely in crafting the narratives which are at the base of many of my anxieties, and how these are grounded in my particular trauma history. She is truly a therapist I feel comfortable delving into extremely difficult subjects and greatly value her feedback and inputs.
I feel very good talking to her, funny and understanding
Dr Graves has done more for me in a few sessions than years and years of therapy have done previously. I was skeptical at first, as is human nature to be with something new, but she picked up on my problem at once, and I cannot emphasize enough how much she has helped me. As a person whose opinions & wishes had been invalidated for many years, I came to Dr Graves broken and at the end of my rope. I understood many things about myself, and things just fell into place - all thanks to Dr Graves' openness and understanding. She is present, she is genuine, and I am just so grateful that we were matched. I highly recommend her!
Dr. Graves answers my questions and gives me practical things to do in assisting to solve my issues.
I was completely unsure about online counselling but Dr.Graves put me at ease. Her approach being focused on the therapeutic relationship eased me into being open and able to communicate. Her response; immediate, compassionate, empathy, trustworthy but also straight and honest! Thank you for always being there when I needed it, you are an amazing therapist!
Dr. Graves is very professional. She listens well and has clear approaches which are science-based. Before I started my sessions with Dr. Graves I was anxious and confused about intrusive thoughts. She helped me open my eyes to see things in clear perspective.