Annai Burrola, LCSW

Annai Burrola is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings three years of professional clinical experience alongside a decade of community support work. She combines clinical training with community-rooted perspective to help people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, relationship challenges, and parenting concerns. As a bilingual bicultural practitioner, she provides therapy in English and Spanish and draws on that cultural fluency to better understand clients' backgrounds and needs.

Annai practices from a trauma-informed stance, creating a welcoming space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She identifies as ALGBTQ2+ affirming and offers sex-positive, polyamory and consensual nonmonogamy supportive approaches, while also affirming neurodiversity. Her work includes addressing grief, attachment and family issues, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, with additional focus on adoption and foster care, aging, autism and parenthood topics.

She emphasizes collaboration and respect, meeting people where they are and tailoring care to individual goals. Annai supports clients facing both everyday stressors and complex histories, helping them build practical coping skills and stronger connections within their relationships and communities. Her approach balances empathy with clinical skills to promote meaningful, sustainable change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Annai integrates attachment-based work that explores how early relationships shape current patterns, helping people improve trust, emotional closeness, and family dynamics. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is used to identify and shift painful interaction cycles in couples and close relationships, supporting partners to connect more securely and respond to each other with greater empathy. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and practical skills to reduce reactivity, which can be especially helpful for anxiety, stress, and managing intense emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Annai works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors treatment plans and adapts techniques over time so the work stays relevant and effective for the individual or family.

Online therapy with Annai offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to access consistent care from different locations and schedules. Licensed professionals can use these formats to maintain continuity of support, practice skills between sessions, and fit therapy into daily life with fewer logistical barriers.