About Traci
Traci Neville, LPC, helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. She works with concerns such as parenting challenges, addictions, grief, sleep problems, self-esteem struggles, and the stress that comes with life changes. Her background also includes experience with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and complex family issues.
She brings 19 years of experience as a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey. Sessions focus on practical steps and understanding what drives day-to-day struggles.
Background and approach
Traci uses clear, direct conversation to help people notice small changes that add up over time. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most.
Cognitive behavioral tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors that keep problems going. Traci also uses existential ideas to help people find meaning and make choices that fit their values. Mindfulness techniques are woven in to build calm and grounding skills for stress, anxiety, and cravings.
Motivational interviewing helps when making changes feels hard or motivation is mixed. Work in sessions is collaborative and paced to what someone can manage. Traci helps people set small, achievable goals and tracks progress together.
She aims to make therapy a straightforward place for practical problem solving and honest conversation.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding each person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and reflects what matters most, creating space to set personal goals and make changes at a comfortable pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems alive. It offers hands-on strategies for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and patterns that affect relationships or addictive behaviors.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These skills can help with stress, cravings, rumination, and emotion regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose which methods to try based on needs, goals, and what feels manageable. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and priorities shift.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video offers face-to-face interaction; phone can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to work on therapy goals from varied routines and locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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