Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
How Helen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Helen
Helen Raiani is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience in New Jersey. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction find practical ways to cope. She also supports those dealing with relationship struggles, anger, grief, and career or life changes.
Her work focuses on clear, usable tools rather than jargon. Sessions center on what a person is dealing with now and what they want to change.
Background and approach
She aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling work, parenting, or health concerns. Helen draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts and actions.
Attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening guide conversations about relationships and self-image. Parents and caregivers often seek her help for exhaustion, compassion fatigue, and communication problems. She also supports people with ADHD, chronic illness, addiction concerns, and those coping with adoption or attachment issues.
Practical strategies and small experiments are typical parts of sessions. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She works with clients to set clear goals and build skills they can use between sessions.
The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
What Helen works with
Everything Helen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Helen's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Helen lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Helen commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and managing anger by clarifying what matters and taking small steps toward it. CBT looks at how thoughts influence behavior and mood, and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and build coping skills.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas when relationships and self-image are central concerns. That approach helps people understand patterns formed in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and communicating. Together, these methods give options for dealing with stress, grief, addiction concerns, and recurring conflict in relationships.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are involved in choosing strategies that fit their daily life and values.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a work break. Chat and messaging support brief check-ins, homework discussion, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask about Helen
What kinds of concerns does Helen address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, and career or life transitions.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She combines listening with exercises and skills people can try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of emotional and behavioral concerns in New Jersey.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in New Jersey.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She sees clients through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to start, select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.