Dr. Yael Banai
Calm, experienced counseling for life and parenting
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Yael
Dr. Yael Banai is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with thirty years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, down-to-earth approach that aims to help parents and adults manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, attention challenges, and life transitions.
Her tone in sessions is low-key and empathetic, focused on each person as an individual rather than a label. She has spent much of her career working in school settings, and has also worked with teens and young adults in other environments.
Background and approach
Dr. Banai draws from several methods to shape sessions, including cognitive behavioral techniques and psychodynamic ideas. She also uses client-centered and solution-focused strategies when they fit a person's needs.
In practice she listens first, then tailors a plan to the person in front of her. Conversations may cover coping strategies, communication, managing mood swings, or building daily routines. She views strengths and weaknesses as part of an individual's whole story rather than as fixed problems.
Her work includes attention to parenting and family-related concerns, and she incorporates coaching-style guidance when clients want practical steps. Sessions are adapted over time as progress and goals change. Starting therapy is treated as a step-by-step process.
Dr. Banai acknowledges that beginning can feel scary and focuses on helping clients take the first step toward clearer goals and more manageable days.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and responding to each person's needs. The therapist follows the client's lead, helping parents and individuals feel heard while identifying practical next steps that matter to daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and develop coping skills for anxiety, mood swings, attention challenges, and stressful situations.
She will work collaboratively to find an approach that fits the person's goals and preferences. Deciding which methods to use is a shared process, and plans can change as progress is made or circumstances shift.
Online sessions make ongoing care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions or live chat can fit busy days. Text-based messaging supports short check-ins or coaching-style guidance between longer sessions. These options help people balance therapy with parenting, work, and daily life while maintaining continuity of care.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point