Jaime Barilla
Practical support for families and parenting
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jaime
Jaime Barilla is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She speaks plain, direct language and aims to help parents and caregivers who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or conflict at home. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, and she works to set practical goals that fit each family's daily life.
She has 13 years of clinical experience providing both in-home and office-based counseling. Jaime has supported children, adolescents, adults, and families through parenting challenges, child behavior problems, parent-child conflict, relationship strain, grief, depression, anxiety, and trauma.
Background and approach
She also has experience addressing infertility stress, self-injurious behaviors, and coping after disasters. Jaime uses a person-centered way of working that meets people where they are and follows the priorities clients bring to sessions. She draws on evidence-based tools like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach concrete skills for managing emotions and behavior.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques help when people need to make specific changes or build momentum. Her style is engaging and respectful. In sessions she helps families set clear, realistic goals and practices strategies they can use at home.
Jaime also runs a company that provides in-home counseling to high-risk children and families, bringing clinical care into everyday settings. Sessions are offered in English and take place online or by phone, chat, or text. Jaime aims to be practical and supportive while helping families find steady ways to solve problems and cope with life changes.
Approaches that translate to online family work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the family's lead, meeting families where they are and building goals that matter to them. This approach helps when parents or caregivers need someone to understand day-to-day struggles before trying specific techniques.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches clear tools for changing thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going. It is useful for managing mood, building routines, and addressing child behavior challenges with step-by-step strategies.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers skills for tolerating strong emotions and improving communication. Those tools can help parents and teens who feel stuck in cycles of anger, shame, or impulsive responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jaime will collaborate with each family to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts the plan as progress is made, combining listening with hands-on skill teaching.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit counseling into busy family life. These options let families connect from home, practice skills between visits, and choose the format that feels most comfortable. The flexible formats support ongoing work around parenting, behavior support, and coping with life changes.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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