Helen Raiani
Calm, practical therapy for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Helen
Helen Raiani is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel understandable and manageable for busy parents.
She uses practical strategies to address everyday problems like trouble sleeping, low energy, and work-related stress. Helen also supports people facing grief, trauma, or changes in life roles.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear steps and small shifts that add up over time. Her training includes cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions, and acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people live with difficult thoughts while focusing on valued goals. She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to strengthen emotional awareness and self-compassion.
Over two decades she has worked with many common issues such as parenting stress, intimacy challenges, self-esteem, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving demands. Helen explains techniques in plain language and adapts them to each person’s situation. Therapy sessions balance practical tools with room to reflect.
People who choose her can expect a calm, steady presence and a focus on achievable change. Helen guides clients to build skills that support day-to-day life and longer term growth. Her goal is to make therapy feel useful and doable.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Helen commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where worry keeps someone from what matters.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that identifies unhelpful thinking patterns and tests new behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood, insomnia, or panic. CBT tends to be practical and goal-oriented, with clear exercises to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Helen will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and responses to different methods, and adjust the plan as needed. The aim is to match techniques to what helps the individual progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation from home. Phone sessions work when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or fit therapy into busy days. These options help parents and working people access care around schedules and locations.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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