- Years in practice
- 3
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Annai
Annai Burrola is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers empathetic, straightforward support for parents and caregivers. She speaks English and Spanish and brings three years of professional clinical experience alongside a decade of community work. Her approach aims to make it easier to talk about hard things and start making small changes that matter.
Annai focuses on common stresses parents face like anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and changes in family life.
Background and approach
She also addresses trauma and abuse, attachment concerns, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT and gender dysphoria questions. Sessions are described in simple terms and center on what the person wants to change or understand. Her style blends client-centered listening with emotion-focused and attachment-based ideas.
That means helping someone name feelings, look at how relationships affect them, and try new ways of responding when old patterns cause pain. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques are also used to support coping and goal-setting. Annai identifies as trauma-informed, bilingual, and bicultural.
She affirms ALGBTQ2+ identities, sex-positive perspectives, consensual nonmonogamy and polyamory, and neurodiversity. This creates space for people to bring relationship, identity, and parenting concerns into therapy without judgment. Therapy sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Starting involves a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling according to availability.
What Annai works with
Everything Annai lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Annai helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Annai lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven care through online sessions
Annai often combines attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused therapy to help people understand how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Attachment-based work looks at patterns formed in close relationships and how they affect current parenting and connection. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on naming emotions, tracking interaction patterns, and trying new responses to improve closeness and reduce reactive behaviors.Client-centered listening and motivational interviewing are part of the process too. This means the therapist will work alongside the person to clarify goals and decide which methods fit best. Finding the right approach is collaborative and can shift as needs and priorities change during therapy.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more manageable with a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and work through emotional material. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging suits quick check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility so therapy can fit daily routines and changing schedules.
Questions people ask about Annai
What kinds of concerns can I bring to sessions?
Annai works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and parenting-related strain. She also addresses issues like attachment, relationship concerns, self-esteem, and identity questions.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The approach is conversational and person-focused, combining client-centered listening with emotionally-focused and attachment-based ideas. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used to help with coping and setting achievable goals.
What is Annai's background and experience?
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and brings three years of professional clinical experience plus ten years supporting the community.
Where is Annai licensed and located?
She is licensed as an LCSW in New Mexico and practices from that state.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.
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