About Raquel
Raquel Aiello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who works with adults facing anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and issues related to identity and intimacy. Raquel aims to make the first step toward counseling feel manageable and patient-centered.
She brings seven years of LPC experience alongside an earlier career working with adults with chronic mental illness and at-risk youth.
Background and approach
That background shaped her focus on trauma, behavior concerns, and complex mood conditions like bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her work has included assessments and hands-on care in both program and court-linked settings. Raquel uses clear, direct conversation to help people understand what is affecting their daily life.
Sessions tend to focus on practical steps and personal values so clients can try new ways of coping between meetings. She pays attention to how relationships, work, and past events influence current choices. She also helps people with eating and sleeping problems, anger, impulsivity, and compassion fatigue.
Additional topics she addresses include attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, body image, blended family issues, and alternative sex culture topics like BDSM and kink when they are relevant to a client's goals. Raquel encourages pacing that feels comfortable for each person. She offers straightforward guidance and listens for what matters most to the client.
Her aim is to help people make steady, realistic changes that fit their life circumstances.
Existential perspectives and online care
Existential Therapy emphasizes meaning, choice, and responsibility. It helps people facing major life questions, career changes, or a sense that life feels off course by focusing on values and personal purpose. This approach is useful when concerns relate to identity, motivation, or larger questions about direction.Raquel pairs existential ideas with straightforward coping strategies to address anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship issues. She helps clients name what matters to them and then plans small, doable steps that reflect those values. Deciding on the right approach is a team effort; the therapist will work with each person to find techniques and pacing that fit their needs and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit around work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, immediate coping reminders, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make scheduling more flexible and let clients maintain continuity of care while balancing daily responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- 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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