About Helen
Helen Raiani is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and the ups and downs of relationships. Helen emphasizes practical steps you can use day to day.
Her style aims to be calm, clear, and respectful of where a person is starting from. She often helps people facing life transitions, burnout, compassion fatigue, and problems with sleep or eating.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her focus areas, and she works with clients who want strategies for attention, structure, and coping. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, and addictive behaviors. Helen draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person.
That can include cognitive behavioral techniques for changing unhelpful patterns. It can also mean using acceptance-focused exercises to reduce struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings. She adapts methods to match what the client finds useful.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Helen helps clients set small, measurable steps and checks progress together. She pays attention to relationship patterns and attachment issues that affect how people connect and feel safe with others.
Her practice also addresses more specific concerns such as caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and career changes. Helen aims to help people regain momentum, build coping skills, and find clearer direction in their daily lives.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Helen commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match personal goals and day-to-day life. Together they will try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging can support regular prompts and shorter reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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