About Annai
Annai Burrola is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New Mexico who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what matters most. She brings three years of clinical experience and a decade of community support work to sessions.
Annai uses straightforward conversation to help people identify what feels hard and what small steps might help.
Background and approach
She emphasizes listening first and then working together on goals that make sense in daily life. Her background is trauma-informed and bicultural, which informs how she approaches difficult experiences like trauma, grief, and life transitions. She describes her practice as ALGBTQ2+ affirming and supportive of diverse relationship styles, including consensual nonmonogamy and polyamory.
She also affirms neurodiversity. Annai draws on attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to improve close relationships and intimacy-related concerns. She also uses mindfulness and client-centered methods to help people tune into their emotions and build steady coping skills.
Sessions tend to be practical and collaborative. Annai helps people talk through parenting stress, compassion fatigue, self-esteem concerns, and challenges tied to adoption, aging, or neurodiversity. She works with issues like ADHD, body image, and communication problems by breaking them into manageable steps.
If someone is ready to start, the process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. Annai supports people who want an affirming, down-to-earth approach to working through anxiety and life changes.
Attachment, Emotion Work, and Online Access
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape how people connect now. It helps with relationship worries, intimacy-related issues, and attachment concerns by identifying patterns and practicing new ways of relating. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on feelings in relationships and helps people name emotions, understand cycles that cause pain, and try new responses to strengthen bonds. Client-Centered Therapy places the person at the center of the work; the therapist listens without judgment and helps people find their own solutions and goals.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Annai will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest approaches that might fit. Together they adjust the focus as progress is made or priorities change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversations, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, and messaging or chat can work for ongoing, written check-ins. These formats make it easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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