About Jaime
Jaime Barilla is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and parenting challenges. She writes in a direct, approachable way and focuses on practical steps people can use now. Jaime practices in New Jersey and brings 13 years of counseling experience to sessions.
She listens first and follows the person's lead to set goals together. Jaime uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change patterns of thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to build coping skills.
Background and approach
Her client-centered style means the person’s concerns shape each session. Jaime has worked with people who struggle with family conflict, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, self-esteem, and career changes. She also helps with areas such as attachment questions, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
Her background includes in-home and office-based counseling settings. Sessions focus on practical strategies, skill-building, and steady progress toward goals. Conversations are intended to be warm, respectful, and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on what will be useful day to day.
Jaime aims to help people feel more able to manage their roles and responsibilities. Outside sessions she oversees clinicians who provide in-home services and continues to support people navigating transitions like separation, fertility struggles, and parenting challenges. Her approach centers on collaboration and small, actionable steps.
How Jaime's Methods Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what the person says they need. The therapist offers empathy and helps set goals the client finds meaningful, which works well for issues like parenting stress, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at practical connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Online CBT visits typically include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing behavioral experiments, and building step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches specific coping skills for strong emotions and relationship challenges. In online sessions that might mean learning distress-tolerance tools, practicing emotion regulation steps, and using role-play to improve communication.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Jaime will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals and preferences, and adjustments are made as needed during treatment.
Online therapy offers flexibility: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, or text messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, attend from different locations in New Jersey, and pick the format that suits each session's purpose.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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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