Jamie Reilly
Practical support for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jamie
Jamie Reilly is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns and related stressors. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what parents and caregivers bring. Jamie aims to make the first steps feel doable for people who are overwhelmed, anxious, or worn out.
Sessions start with what matters most to the parent or caregiver. Jamie helps identify one or two realistic goals and breaks them into small steps.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools and teaches skills you can try between sessions. The tone is supportive and practical rather than overly clinical. Jamie has worked in the field for 10 years as an LPC - licensed professional counselor in New Jersey.
That background includes helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress from life changes, and grief. She also has experience addressing trauma, addiction concerns, and issues tied to family patterns and attachment. Her approach draws from several evidence-based methods.
She borrows techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thinking, from dialectical behavior therapy to build coping skills, and from attachment-based ideas to improve connection and boundaries within families. The work often includes simple exercises, communication practice, and concrete behavior changes. Parents and caregivers who prefer clear steps and steady support tend to do well with her style.
Jamie aims to be a steady partner in the day-to-day work of parenting and family change, offering practical strategies and a calm space to talk.
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Jamie often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical actions to change mood and behavior. Attachment-based approaches look at patterns in relationships and help parents and caregivers create clearer boundaries and more stable connections.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and try methods that match those needs. The plan can shift over time based on what helps most, and decisions are made together.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and caregivers. Sessions can be by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins are possible through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a work or family schedule, practice skills between sessions, and keep progress moving forward even when life is busy.
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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Jamie
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point