About Alfred
Alfred Borrelli is a licensed clinician with 40 years of experience helping people navigate stress and anxiety. He is an LPC in New Jersey and an LMHC in New York. He encourages clients to begin at their own pace and respects each person’s strengths and choices.
He focuses on practical coping for anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. He also works with sleeping problems, anger, career concerns, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Additional areas include obsessive behaviors, panic, phobias, and mood disorders. In sessions he treats each person as the expert on their life. He listens for strengths and builds on what is already working.
The tone is collaborative and steady, with attention to real-life changes and daily routines. Alfred uses several therapeutic approaches to address traumatic memories and patterns that maintain distress. He draws on methods aimed at reducing intense reactions and helping people make meaningful behavior changes.
His long experience includes supporting recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and navigating the effects of traumatic brain injury. He offers a straightforward, no-frills style that aims to make therapy usable. People come away with practical strategies for managing panic attacks, obsessions, seasonal mood shifts, and relationship-related stress.
The work centers on clear goals and steady progress.
Using EMDR and Motivational Interviewing for online care
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, focuses on working with memories that keep a person stuck. In practice it involves guided attention and processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic or disturbing memories and the reactions they cause. Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve mixed feelings about change. It relies on open questions and reflective listening to strengthen personal motivation for steps like addressing addictions or behavior change.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest which approach or combination may fit best. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people see and interact in real time for movement-based methods and longer sessions. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short updates, brief coaching, or prompts between longer sessions. These formats let people access therapy from different places and times to better fit daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English
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