About Yael
Dr. Yael Banai welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, changes at work, or struggles with attention and mood. She writes plainly and aims to make sessions feel calm and straightforward.
Dr. Banai is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, based in Louisiana with 30 years of experience. She keeps her style low-key and empathetic.
Sessions focus on the person, not a label, and look for strengths alongside difficulties.
How Yael works
Conversations move toward practical steps and clearer thinking rather than jargon-filled explanations. Her background includes long work in school settings and other clinical environments. That experience shaped an ability to help teens and young adults, and also informs work with adults facing career or life transitions.
She draws on a range of methods to meet different needs. In practice she uses Client-Centered ideas to listen and build understanding, Cognitive Behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior, and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper patterns. She also draws on solution-focused techniques when people want short-term, goal-oriented work.
She tailors a plan to each person’s situation and goals. Sessions can focus on managing anxiety, improving self-esteem, navigating parenting stresses, coping with ADHD challenges, or planning career moves. The first session is used to figure out realistic next steps together.
Yael lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Yael works with
The areas below are the ones Yael selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy starts by listening closely and treating the person as the expert on their own life. It helps when someone needs validation, clearer self-understanding, and a supportive space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior. It uses simple exercises and practical homework to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time. This is a collaborative process that can shift as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different kinds of days and schedules. Video calls are close to an in-person meeting and work well for longer sessions. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or work through short goals in writing. These options let people fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while working with licensed professionals and therapists experienced in these approaches.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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