EPISODE 43: COPING WITH COVID-19

In this episode Jillian Ziesmer, LMFT and LPCC and Sandra discuss the impact of COVID-19 on our mental health. Jillian dives into easy to use coping skills that can be used to deal with anxiety or depression that might be coming up for you at this time.

ABOUT JILLIAN ZIESMER

Jillian is Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She works with adults (18+), teens, and couples in California. Her background includes two master’s degrees (an MA in Psychology and an MA in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy) from Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology. She earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology (BA in Psychology) from California State University Dominguez Hills. She received extensive training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at The Maple Counseling Center for working with individual adults, as well as training in working with couples using Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and an informed approach in Emotion-Focused Therapy. Her experience and training with individuals, couples, and groups also include chronic mental illness and severe psychopathology at Exodus Recovery Inc in a locked psychiatric facility as well as an outpatient; acute mental illness at Resilience Treatment Center at levels of IOP, PHP, and residential; substance abuse at Forward Recovery at IOP, residential, and detox; supervising adolescents on a crisis hotline at Teen Line at Cedar Sinai Hospital; individual and couples counseling in private practice under the supervision of Margaret Hickman, LMFT 87976; suicide crisis counseling at the Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center; and working with individual adults and couples at Meridian Counseling. She has training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and is informed in and have experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), as well as mindfulness meditation and practices.

She also has experience as a preschool teacher, an early interventionist, a social skills interventionist, and a behavior interventionist working with children with special needs using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).