📍 Washington – Jillian Brown, M.A., LMHC – White Salmon – Mt Hood area

Jillian Brown,

Jillian Brown,

Contact directly:

363 East Jewett Boulevard, Suite 1
White Salmon, WA 98672

📞 503-523-9569
✉️ jillianbrown1@gmail.com

Meet Jillian Brown, M.A., LMHC

Counseling, Healing, and Hypnosis in White Salmon

Are you looking for a counselor and hypnotherapist serving White Salmon and the Columbia River Gorge?

Biography:  Jillian Brown is a mental-health counselor, hypnotherapist, and integrative practitioner who works with tweens, teenagers, and adults. Her approach brings together counseling, hypnotherapy, attachment-focused work, depth psychology, family systems, somatic awareness, creative therapies, and complementary healing practices.

Jillian helps clients explore the deeper patterns behind emotional distress, relationship difficulties, unwanted behaviors, and the feeling of repeatedly becoming stuck in the same experience.

From Hypnotherapy to Counseling

Jillian began working as a hypnotherapist in 2011. Her fascination with the subconscious mind led her to explore how past experiences, relationships, family patterns, and the body can influence present-day emotions and behavior.

After several years as a hypnotherapist and energy-healing practitioner, Jillian entered graduate school in 2016. She wanted to expand her professional skills and develop longer-term therapeutic relationships with clients.

Jillian earned a master’s degree in psychology with a counseling focus from Saybrook University. After graduating, she continued her education through training in primary attachment psychotherapy, Process Work, family constellations, Nonviolent Communication, pre- and perinatal psychology, sand tray and play therapy, craniosacral work, Reiki, and other integrative approaches.

Exploring the Patterns Beneath the Surface

Jillian’s work is informed by depth psychology and a deep interest in the subconscious mind. She helps clients explore questions such as:

  • Why does this keep happening?

  • Why do I repeatedly make the same choices?

  • Why do I feel stuck in this pattern?

  • Where did this emotional reaction begin?

  • How are earlier relationships affecting my life today?

  • What do I need to feel more secure within myself?

  • How can I reconnect with my inner direction and sense of purpose?

Her goal is to help clients bring unconscious patterns into awareness, understand how those patterns developed, and create healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.

Areas of Focus

Jillian works with clients seeking support for concerns that may include:

  • Anxiety and stress

  • Depression

  • Attachment wounds

  • Trauma and difficult life experiences

  • Ancestral and intergenerational patterns

  • Relationship difficulties

  • Addictive and compulsive patterns

  • Grief and loss

  • Self-esteem and confidence

  • Parenting concerns

  • Body-image concerns

  • Chronic pain or illness adjustment

  • Insomnia and sleep-related difficulties

  • Burnout

  • Spirituality and personal meaning

  • Life purpose and direction

  • Repetitive emotional or behavioral patterns

  • Personal transitions

  • Feeling disconnected from oneself

  • Developing greater internal security

The methods selected depend upon the client’s needs, treatment goals, preferences, age, and readiness.

Therapeutic Approaches

Jillian may incorporate a variety of counseling and experiential approaches, including:

  • Hypnotherapy

  • Attachment-focused psychotherapy

  • Depth psychology

  • Process-oriented psychology

  • Family constellations

  • Family-systems approaches

  • Somatic and body-centered therapy

  • Internal Family Systems-informed work

  • Relational therapy

  • Mindfulness

  • Motivational interviewing

  • Narrative and psychodynamic approaches

  • Nonviolent Communication

  • Expressive and experiential practices

  • Sand tray and play therapy

  • Art and creative exploration

  • Guided visualization

  • Ecotherapy

  • Movement and body awareness

Sessions may include conversation, imagery, creative materials, sand tray, art, movement, mindfulness, or other practices selected to support the client’s therapeutic process.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy may be used to help clients access thoughts, memories, emotional associations, and internal resources that are not always readily available through ordinary conversation.

Jillian may integrate hypnosis into ongoing counseling or offer focused, short-term hypnotherapy for a specific concern. Hypnosis is collaborative, and clients remain able to communicate and make choices throughout the process.

Family Constellations and Ancestral Patterns

Family constellation work explores how family experiences, loyalties, losses, roles, and intergenerational patterns may influence a person’s present-day life.

Some clients use this approach to develop new perspectives on relationships, emotional reactions, or long-standing family dynamics. 

Complementary and Spiritual Practices

Depending upon the client’s interests, Jillian’s broader background may also inform work involving:

  • Reiki

  • Energy-based practices

  • Shamanic journeying

  • Pre- and perinatal exploration

  • Craniosacral principles

  • Tea ceremony

  • Spirituality

  • Past life regression

  • The Reconnection

Participation in spiritual, metaphysical, or energy-based practices is optional.

Education and Professional Training

Jillian’s education and training include:

  • Bachelor’s degree, Portland State University

  • Master’s degree in psychology with a counseling focus, Saybrook University

  • Hypnotherapy certification, Northwest Hypnosis Institute

  • Primary attachment psychotherapy training, M.E.T.A. Institute

  • Certification and internship, Process Work Institute

  • Nonviolent Communication certification

  • Peirsman Craniosacral certification

  • Family Constellations training with Megan Gunsorek

  • Shamanic Journeying training with Adventurine Doarn

  • Pre- and Perinatal Psychology training with Myrna Martin

  • Sand Tray and Play Therapy training through the Oregon Association for Play Therapy

  • Reiki and Reconnection training

Clients and Appointment Options

Jillian works with:

  • Adults

  • Teenagers

  • Tweens

  • Individuals seeking ongoing counseling

  • Clients seeking short-term, goal-focused hypnotherapy

  • People interested in family constellation work

  • Clients exploring personal or spiritual development

In-person services are available in White Salmon. 

Contact Jillian Brown

Jillian Brown, M.A., LMHC
Counselor and Hypnotherapist

📍 363 East Jewett Boulevard, Suite 1
White Salmon, WA 98672

📞 503-523-9569
✉️ jillianbrown1@gmail.com
🌐 Counseling with Jillian Brown

Contact Jillian to ask about current availability, scheduling, insurance participation, online-session eligibility, or an initial consultation.

Independent-Practice Disclosure

Jillian Brown’s counseling and hypnotherapy practice is independently owned and operated. Jillian Brown is not an employee, agent, partner, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.

Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their credentials, licenses, services, fees, scheduling, insurance participation, client relationships, professional decisions, representations, or results.

Recommended by Healthy Life Centers.

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