About Rhaysa
Rhaysa Saint-Hilaire greets people with a calm, straightforward style. She has 15 years of practice as a licensed clinical social worker and speaks both English and Spanish. Many who come to her are juggling stress, anxiety, parenting demands, or major life changes and want clear, practical help.
Rhaysa focuses on the person in front of her. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to listen and understand. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change everyday patterns.
How Rhaysa works
Mindfulness and existential ideas help people find meaning and stay present during hard moments. Her background includes licenses in New York and Florida: LCSW-R and LCSW. She has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, depression, family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiving strain, and issues around body image and self-esteem.
Her experience spans many settings over a decade and a half. Sessions are practical and goal-focused. Rhaysa helps people set steps they can try between meetings.
She also supports parents who are tackling the stresses of raising children and managing relationships with difficult family dynamics. Rhaysa welcomes clients who prefer English or Spanish and accepts international clients. She offers conversations that are direct, respectful, and aimed at real-world changes.
If someone wants a therapist who listens first and works with them to build solutions, she may be a good fit.
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What Rhaysa works with
The areas below are the ones Rhaysa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW-R, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. The therapist creates space to be heard and helps people clarify what matters most to them, which can ease stress and improve relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In short sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and build calm. These tools are useful for managing strong emotions after trauma or during life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. They may combine techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief reflections, or continued practice between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent when schedules or locations change.
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