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Annai Burrola

Warm, trauma-informed therapy for life changes

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Credentials
LCSW
Experience
3 years
Licensed in
New Mexico
Languages
English, Spanish
Format
Online sessions

About Annai

Annai Burrola is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who draws on a client-centered and trauma-informed approach. She speaks both English and Spanish and aims to create a calm space where people can talk without feeling judged. Annai encourages small steps and gives straightforward support so parents and individuals facing stress can feel less overwhelmed.

She focuses on practical ways to manage anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She also pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and parenting challenges.

Background and approach

Her work includes supporting people navigating ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Annai uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She applies Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help partners and individuals understand strong emotions that shape interactions.

Mindfulness skills are woven into sessions to help people stay grounded in the moment. With three years of clinical experience and a decade of community support work, Annai brings both training and real-world perspective. Her style is affirming of ALGBTQ2+ identities, sex-positive approaches, polyamory and consensual nonmonogamy, and neurodiversity.

She makes space for clients from varied backgrounds without judgment. Sessions are offered through video, phone, chat, or text formats. People who want to begin can use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to find a time that fits their schedule.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Annai commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional patterns. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and gives a path toward different responses. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to identify and work through intense feelings that affect connections with others, which can be useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.

Mindfulness is woven into sessions to help people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions in the moment. These approaches aim to be practical and readable rather than technical, and the therapist works collaboratively to choose what fits each person best. Finding the right approach is part of the work together, and treatment is adapted based on the clients needs, goals, and preferences.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats allow families and individuals to connect from home, fit sessions around busy days, and use the style of communication that feels most comfortable. The variety of formats helps make regular, ongoing work more manageable for people with different schedules and needs.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and grief. Additional focus areas include parenting, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach blends client-centered work with attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also used to support practical change.
What kind of experience does she have?
She holds three years of professional clinical experience and about ten years of community-support experience. That mix informs both clinical and practical perspectives.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed as an LCSW in New Mexico with licence NM LCSW SWB-2022-1127. Her practice indicates work from New Mexico.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. International clients are not accepted at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This allows for different communication preferences.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Specific pricing will appear during sign-up.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability. The matching step helps pair needs with the right therapist.

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Experience
3 years
Licensed
New Mexico
Languages
English, Spanish

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