About Raquel
Raquel Aiello helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and trauma-related concerns. She also supports clients with relationship and intimacy issues, career shifts, self-esteem struggles, eating and sleeping difficulties, and concerns tied to identity and sexuality. Raquel is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in New Jersey with seven years of experience.
She uses a straightforward, conversational approach in sessions. Raquel encourages people to set the pace and focus on what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Conversations center on practical steps and clearer choices rather than jargon. She aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for someone unsure about the process. Her background began in 2004 working in a day program with adults living with chronic mental illness.
She later worked with at-risk youth involved with the juvenile court system. After earning her license in 2014, she provided assessments and worked with young people who had fire-setting behaviors and other complex needs. Over time her practice grew to include adults dealing with trauma, life transitions, career decisions, and mood conditions.
She has also worked with people navigating attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, and a range of intimacy and alternative sexuality questions. This range informs how she thinks about each person's situation. Raquel focuses on helping people notice patterns, weigh options, and try doable changes.
Sessions often include talking through current problems, identifying small experiments, and checking what helps. She invites people to take steps at a pace that feels right for them.
Existential approaches and online therapy options
Existential Therapy focuses on big life questions - meaning, choice, responsibility, and how people live with uncertainty. It helps when someone feels stuck by life transitions, questions about identity, or a sense of emptiness despite outward success. Sessions encourage honest reflection about values and practical ways to live in line with them. Raquel pairs that perspective with a pragmatic focus on day-to-day problems like sleep, eating, work stress, and relationship patterns. Together the therapist and client look at choices and experiment with small changes that fit the client’s goals. Deciding which approach feels right is part of the work and Raquel treats it as a collaborative process based on the client’s needs and preferences. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video helps when visual connection is useful, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or times when writing feels easier, and these options make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy schedule. The focus remains on practical progress and adapting the approach as needs evolve.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English