About Alfred
Alfred Borrelli is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 40 years of clinical experience in New Jersey. He focuses on practical, down-to-earth care for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and mood concerns including depression and bipolar issues. He also works with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related challenges.
Alfred aims to build on each person's own strengths. He listens to the story you bring and helps you find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what feels manageable for the client. He uses trauma-focused methods and psychodynamic thinking to look at how past experiences shape today’s reactions. He also employs EMDR techniques and motivational interviewing when those approaches fit the goals people bring to therapy.
Across his career Alfred has supported people dealing with substance and behavioral addictions, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, panic, phobias, personality concerns, and effects of traumatic brain injury. He also addresses sleep problems, anger, career stress, seasonal mood shifts, and codependency. His work is straightforward and respectful.
Alfred encourages small steps that add up to meaningful change and helps clients try practical strategies between sessions.
How Alfred’s Approaches Work Online
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people reduce the intensity of traumatic memories by pairing guided eye movements with focused recall. It is often used for post-traumatic stress and other trauma-related reactions. Motivational interviewing is a conversational style that helps people resolve mixed feelings about change and build inner motivation for behaviors like reducing substance use or sticking with new routines.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Alfred will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels most useful, then suggest methods to try. Sessions may include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan based on what works for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work face-to-face from another location, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps people keep in touch between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, travel, or busy home schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English
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