Jaime Barilla, LPC

Jaime Barilla is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, relationship problems, and family issues. Jaime also lists blended family issues among her areas of focus, along with trauma and abuse and challenges around self-esteem and coping with life changes.

Jaime has provided in-home and office-based counseling across age groups. Her work has included child behavioral concerns, parent-child conflict, and support for people facing infertility stress. She has led a practice that offers in-home services to high-risk children and families, and has experience with adoption, foster care, attachment issues, and disruptive mood difficulties.

Her usual style is person-centered, which means she starts by listening to what matters most to the client and follows their lead about where to focus. She integrates practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address thinking patterns, emotions, and everyday skills.

Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to set achievable goals and encourage small changes that add up. Jaime also draws on emotionally-focused approaches when relationship or attachment concerns are central to the work.

Sessions emphasize clear goals and concrete skills for managing stress, anger, or anxiety. People often work on communication strategies, parenting approaches, and coping tools for major life transitions. The focus is on useful steps you can practice between meetings to see progress over time.