About Helen
Helen Raiani is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 20 years of practice helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She focuses on everyday struggles like sleep problems, low self-esteem, and coping with change. Helen uses practical methods and a calm, straightforward style to help people feel steadier and clearer about next steps.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, bipolar mood challenges, and issues around intimacy and communication.
Background and approach
She also addresses parenting stress, caregiver strain, and the impacts of chronic illness on daily life. Helen pays attention to how past attachment and life events shape current behavior and relationships. Therapy sessions draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-based thinking, client-centered listening, and Jungian perspectives when helpful.
She focuses on what matters most to each person and uses tools that fit real life. Sessions are practical and aim to build skills for handling difficult moments. People can work with Helen by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She supports clients in English and is based in New Jersey. Her experience includes a long history of helping adults find direction, manage symptoms, and rebuild rhythm after loss or upheaval. Helen aims to make the work collaborative.
She helps people set clear goals, try new approaches between sessions, and track what helps. Small changes in routine and thinking often lead to noticeable improvements over time.
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then move toward the values that matter most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and chronic worry where action matters more than getting rid of every difficult thought.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives practical strategies to change habits of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It often helps with sleep issues, low mood, rumination, and stress by teaching small experiments and coping skills.
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It helps people understand trust, boundaries, and reactions in relationships so they can build more satisfying emotional bonds.
Finding the right blend of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match goals and daily life. Sessions start with goals, test what helps, and adjust the plan based on feedback.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for full sessions and visual connection. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or texting can be useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor 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