About Rhaysa
Rhaysa Saint-Hilaire welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or major life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker in New York and Florida with 15 years of practice. Rhaysa speaks English and Spanish and connects with people from many cultural backgrounds.
She focuses on common concerns like depression, trauma and abuse, family conflict, parenting strain, and self-esteem. She also helps with career worries and coping after losses or difficult transitions.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and person-focused, with attention to each person's goals and values. Rhaysa uses several therapeutic methods to guide sessions, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, existential thinking, and psychodynamic perspectives. Sessions aim to identify patterns, build coping skills, and try small changes that can make daily life easier.
Her background includes a Master of Social Work from New York University and a long history of supporting people through crisis and emotional disturbance. She holds the New York LCSW-R credential 084894 and the Florida LCSW Sw20408, and she has worked across diverse communities over her career. Rhaysa offers flexible session styles and adapts her pace to each person.
She emphasizes collaboration and respects cultural differences when planning goals and strategies. Many clients appreciate straightforward steps and practical tools to manage symptoms and rebuild confidence.
How Rhaysa’s Approaches Work Online
Rhaysa often uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, collaborative relationship so people can clarify values and goals. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and situation. That decision is collaborative and may change as the work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from different places. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text messaging can serve as brief check-ins, homework support, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options help people fit care around work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish