About Helen
Helen Raiani is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, and the everyday pressures that make life feel overwhelming. She works with individuals facing relationship problems, addiction concerns, trauma, and grief.
Helen also supports people coping with career changes, parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, and symptoms related to bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to ADHD, compassion fatigue, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Helen uses a mix of practical approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful patterns.
She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and build psychological flexibility. Attachment-based ideas and client-centered methods guide how she builds trust in the room. Helen pays attention to early relationship patterns and how they shape current struggles.
She also brings elements of Jungian thought to support deeper meaning-making when that is helpful. Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. Helen helps people set short-term goals, practice new skills between sessions, and notice small changes over time.
Her style is calm and practical, designed for people who want clear steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where getting unstuck matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with workable alternatives. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they set specific steps to try, check what helps, and adjust plans over time so therapy feels relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging work for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines, while still allowing licensed professionals to guide skill practice and progress tracking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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