Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW is the CEO of Central Counseling Services in Riverside, California. She and her business partner opened CCS ten years ago, and it has grown to include three locations. Jill specializes in grief and loss, dementia, and trauma and is an international speaker in those areas.
Jill’s career has included more than a decade with hospice as a medical social worker and as director of social workers, chaplains, and grief staff, and child welfare for close to two decades, including  adoptions. Jill has authored several books for children and adults on grief, with several more in process. Her most recent book, The Rebellious Widow, was released in March of this year.
Jill provides training to a variety of agencies around the globe, including the US Navy SA program, SAMSHA, the Mississippi State Department of Health, and counseling agencies. She also speaks to groups including the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, NASW, and The California Funeral Director’s Association. She has been featured on Good Morning Washington DC, NBC Radio, and close to 75 podcasts internationally.
Jill speaks into grief from both professional training and from being widowed twice, with the added bonus of being married to a funeral director. She was the caregiver for both her first wife, Linda, who died of pulmonary fibrosis after breast cancer, and her second wife, Casper, who died of Lewy Body Dementia. She is currently caring for her mom who has dementia.