Raquel Aiello
Finding direction through life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Raquel
Raquel Aiello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. She talks plainly about hard topics and aims to make starting therapy feel manageable. Parents and adults read her approach as steady and practical when they need guidance on big life shifts.
She has seven years working under her LPC credential and draws on longer experience in community programs and youth services. Her background includes mental health work with youth and adults, beginning in a day program for adults with chronic mental illness in 2004.
Background and approach
She later worked with at-risk youth involved with the juvenile court system and has conducted mental health evaluations for young people. After receiving her LPC in 2014 she spent time addressing fire-setting behaviors and other safety concerns in clinical settings.
In sessions she focuses on everyday problems that often bring people in: stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, attention differences, and trauma-related issues. She also addresses relationship and family strains, career transitions, identity questions including LGBT topics, and intimacy or sexual culture concerns such as BDSM and kink when those arise.
Her style is to go at a pace that feels comfortable for each person. She helps clients talk through feelings tied to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports work on body image, eating and sleeping concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Raquel uses conversational, goal-focused sessions and draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning and direction. She invites clients to identify what they want to change and works together to take practical next steps.
Existential Perspectives and Online Care
Existential Therapy looks at how meaning, choice, and responsibility shape daily life. It helps people facing big questions about purpose, identity, and the impact of life changes, and can be useful for those coping with anxiety, depression, or career shifts.In practice she uses conversational, reflective work to help people identify what matters to them now. This approach supports clients who feel stuck by encouraging small, deliberate steps toward clearer priorities and more authentic choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable, and then tailor sessions so the method fits the person rather than the other way around. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are expected as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy schedules. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent during life transitions, work commitments, or when travel is difficult, while preserving the conversational and exploratory style of her in-person practice.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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