About Annai
Annai Burrola is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers warm, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make early steps feel manageable for someone who’s nervous about starting therapy. She focuses on emotional and relationship concerns, including intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, and communication problems.
She also helps people navigate parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Her practice includes support around ADHD, attachment issues, adoption and foster care, and gender or identity concerns such as gender dysphoria.
Background and approach
Annai takes an attachment-based and client-centered approach. Sessions prioritize listening and building trust so people can share thoughts and feelings without judgment. She blends emotionally-focused ideas and motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals and try new ways of relating.
Her background includes three years as a clinical social worker and a decade of broader community support experience. That mix informs a practical, grounded style that balances emotional understanding with steps people can use between sessions. She identifies as trauma-informed, bilingual, and bicultural.
Her practice is ALGBTQ2+ affirming and supports sex-positive, polyamory, consensual nonmonogamy, and neurodiversity-affirming perspectives. Annai works from New Mexico and uses conversational, clear language in sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions use this lens to help people identify patterns in how they connect and to practice new ways of relating during everyday life. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s own goals and pace; the therapist listens without judgment and follows what matters most to the client so sessions feel collaborative and paced to the individual. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions and the interaction patterns that keep problems going. In online work this can be useful for addressing intimacy issues, communication struggles, and strong emotional reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which combination of methods fits best based on goals and preferences. That collaborative planning helps make sessions meaningful and focused on practical next steps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility in how and when people check in. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and interactive work, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text options are useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and varied daily needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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