About Vani
Vani Burnette is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 18 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, down-to-earth approach and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, career strain, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing challenges such as parenting, postpartum depression, eating and sleeping struggles, addiction patterns, and compassion fatigue.
How Vani works
Additional focus areas include codependency, communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and life purpose. Her style is warm and interactive. Conversations are tailored to each person and aim to be respectful and nonjudgmental.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and centers the client's goals when planning work together. Vani draws on several therapeutic approaches to shape sessions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, client-centered methods to follow each person's pace, and solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals.
Narrative and attachment perspectives are added when helpful to understand personal stories and relationship patterns. People connect with her for both coaching-style guidance and deeper therapy. She can offer short-term focused work or longer-term support depending on need.
Her background and flexible approach make sessions practical and grounded for people navigating change or recovery.
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What Vani works with
The areas below are the ones Vani selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections affect current relationships and emotions, helping people understand patterns in closeness, trust, and independence. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's pace, creating conversations that reflect what matters most to the individual. Cognitive behavioral therapy identifies unhelpful thoughts and habits and uses small experiments and skills to change how someone thinks and acts, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that suit each person's situation. Over time the plan can shift to emphasize problem-solving, deeper reflection, or skill-building as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let you see facial cues and do deeper work. Phone can work when bandwidth is limited or when a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, shorter sessions, or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to get consistent support around work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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