About Helen
Helen Raiani uses a flexible, client-centered approach to help people through hard moments. She is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience in New Jersey. Helen focuses on practical steps people can use day to day to feel steadier.
She works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, addictions, and trauma and abuse. She also helps people facing grief, career strain, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
How Helen works
Intimacy-related issues, sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain, and ADHD are also areas she addresses. Helen blends several therapy styles to match each person’s needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior. Attachment-Based and client-centered methods guide exploration of relationship patterns and emotional safety. Her work is straightforward and collaborative.
Sessions focus on understandable tools, reflection, and steps to practice between meetings. Helen aims to help people build skills that carry into everyday life and relationships. Over two decades in practice have brought experience with complex, overlapping issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, codependency, and body image concerns.
People who seek her out often want a steady, respectful clinician who will listen and help them move toward clearer goals.
Helen lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Helen works with
The areas below are the ones Helen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and coping with chronic stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how those patterns affect intimacy and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Helen will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and practical needs. That process can include trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for deeper conversational work and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using the approaches described above.
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