About Vani
Vani Burnette is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 18 years of clinical experience. She combines practical strategies with a warm, interactive manner to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented while staying respectful and compassionate. In therapy she uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts. Solution-Focused and Client-Centered methods guide short-term goals and keep the work aligned with each person's values.
Vani has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, intimacy problems, and eating or sleeping difficulties. She also helps with career concerns, compassion fatigue, codependency, and challenges like control issues or guilty and shame.
Her background includes attention to pregnancy, postpartum depression, and fatherhood questions. Sessions can be in English or Spanish and are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Vani frames therapy as a collaboration - she listens, suggests options, and adjusts the plan as things change. Her style aims to make the work feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
To begin, a brief matching questionnaire is used to connect people to her practice and scheduling follows the therapist's availability. Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships influence how people feel and relate to others. Online sessions use conversations to identify patterns and build safer ways of connecting with important people. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior and can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to goals, try a few techniques, and adjust the plan so it fits the client's needs and preferences. Progress is tracked together and sessions are adapted if something isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging works well for short updates or when people prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the work focused and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish