About Raquel
Raquel Aiello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey. She has seven years of experience and helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, trauma, and challenges with relationships and intimacy. She also supports people dealing with self-esteem, career shifts, eating and sleeping struggles, and compassion fatigue.
Raquel began working in behavioral health in 2004 in a day program for adults with chronic mental illness.
How Raquel works
She later worked with at-risk youth involved in the juvenile court system and has conducted mental health evaluations for young people. After receiving her LPC license in New Jersey in 2014 she provided services for youths with fire-setting behaviors and continued working with trauma-related concerns. Her approach uses Existential Therapy, which focuses on meaning, choice, and personal responsibility.
Sessions aim to help people clarify values, face difficult feelings, and decide what matters most in daily life. Her style is collaborative and paced to fit each person’s comfort level. Raquel addresses specific issues such as attachment and abandonment, codependency, communication problems, body image, and eating and food-related concerns.
She also works with people who identify with BDSM, kink, and alternative sex cultures and those coping with blended family dynamics. Practical needs are part of the work. Conversations cover small steps and measurable changes, like routines for better sleep or ways to manage impulsivity.
She invites clients to move forward at a pace that feels manageable.
Raquel lists one way of working on the entry:
What Raquel works with
The areas below are the ones Raquel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Existential approaches for online therapy
Existential Therapy helps people consider meaning, choice, and responsibility in their lives. It can be useful for those facing career changes, feelings of emptiness, chronic anxiety, or questions about identity and values. The work often includes discussing beliefs, clarifying priorities, and deciding on practical next steps.Raquel approaches treatment as a team effort. She will help clients explore different therapeutic ideas and decide what fits their goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes checking in about progress and adjusting focus as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and flexible communication between longer sessions.
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