About Rhaysa
Rhaysa Saint-Hilaire is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and family concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 15 years of clinical experience to sessions. People come to her when life feels hard to navigate and they need practical ways to cope.
Rhaysa combines straightforward conversation with focused tools. She uses client-centered work to listen and prioritize what matters to each person. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and psychodynamic thinking are part of her approach when exploring feelings and patterns that repeat over time. Her background includes social work training at the master's level and licenses in New York and Florida, and she currently works from New Jersey.
She has experience supporting people facing trauma, family conflict, parenting struggles, perinatal and postpartum challenges, and issues connected to adoption and caregiving. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Rhaysa helps clients build coping skills for day-to-day stress, process painful experiences, and clarify next steps for relationships or career choices.
She frames change as a gradual process and focuses on what can be tried between meetings. Rhaysa welcomes clients who want care in English or Spanish and who prefer different session formats. Her style is steady and attentive, aiming to make therapy useful and understandable for busy lives.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rhaysa commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around the person’s priorities, which helps when people need support with stress, parenting, or family concerns. Cognitive behavioral ideas look at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach small experiments to shift unhelpful patterns.She also draws on mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when helpful. Mindfulness teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and calm the body, which can reduce worry and reactivity. Psychodynamic ideas help identify repeated relationship patterns that show up across time and impact mood and self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as work progresses. Together they decide what feels most useful and change the plan if something isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions work well with low bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible around work, family, and caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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