Jackie Hill, MSW, LICSW
Jackie has enjoyed working with children, teens, and young adults for the past 10 years. Her experience ranges from teaching and counseling in early childhood schools to counseling high schoolers, college-aged students, and young adults. She excels in and prioritizes building strong relationships with clients and families to support and promote their social-emotional well being and functioning.
Jackie believes that a strong therapeutic relationship is essential to the therapeutic process and is the first step to positive growth and change. Her non-judgmental and accepting manner lays the groundwork to establish strong connections with clients of all ages and their families. Jackie’s approach is warm, collaborative, and inviting, ensuring that clients and their families feel heard and understood throughout the therapeutic process.
Jackie specializes in working with teenagers, college-aged students, young adults, and parents. Her clinical experience includes working with individuals with anxiety, depression, ADHD/ADD, learning disabilities, navigating life transitions, and parents dealing with children with behavioral concerns and anxious emotions. Jackie utilizes an eclectic approach, drawing from various evidence-based treatment models, and she uses the most effective approach or combination of approaches in order to address clients’ needs and goals for therapy. Specifically in her work with parents, Jackie is SPACE trained (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions). Through this model, Jackie works with parents to address their child’s anxiety, come up with specific plans to change parent behavior in response to their child’s anxiety, and support parents and children in working through these difficulties.
Jackie is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in the District of Columbia. She received her BA in Psychology from Kenyon College and an MSW from The Catholic University of America.
