About Anat
Dr. Anat Anais is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, and trauma. She brings three decades of clinical experience and a calm, practical style to sessions.
Many people come to her for help with mood concerns, parenting questions, addiction, and self-esteem issues. Her approach is warm and person-centered. She listens first and then works with each person to set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings and on noticing patterns that make problems worse. Dr. Anais mixes methods rather than relying on a single model.
She draws from attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and from cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-focused work helps people name and move through strong feelings, while motivational interviewing supports change when someone feels stuck. She trained at Adelphi University and holds a doctoral degree and a master’s degree in social work.
Her license is LCSW in New York. Over 30 years she has worked with people from many backgrounds and with a wide range of concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Hebrew and available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Dr. Anais partners with each person to build a plan that fits their life and goals, and she adapts tools to match what actually works for them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current behavior and reactions; online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to help people notice and change those patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood, and it works well through guided exercises during video or text sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and validation, helping people feel heard while they work toward their own goals in a collaborative way.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time so the work fits the client’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or texting can fit quick check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep continuity when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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