About Vani
Vani Burnette is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with 18 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive style that helps people talk through stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship concerns, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy practical and approachable for everyday life.
Vani blends client-centered conversations with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused work. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps.
Background and approach
She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, try different responses, and build skills that make daily life easier. Her background includes long experience supporting people who have faced trauma, emotional abuse, and grief. She also brings knowledge of career challenges, parenting stress, intimacy issues, and struggles with self-esteem and control.
That experience guides how she plans each person's care. In sessions Vani uses narrative work to help people reframe their stories and explore values. She pairs that with practical strategies for sleep, eating, and coping skills when those areas are affecting mood or daily functioning.
The focus is on what will help in the next days and weeks. Vani describes her role as collaborative. She listens first, then helps shape a plan that fits the person's goals and life.
If someone wants shorter-term coaching or longer-term therapy, she adapts the pace and tools to match what they need.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions this approach helps people notice how they connect and respond in relationships, and then practice new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and conflict.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and goals. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the person lead the pace of work. This approach is useful for self-esteem, grief, and getting clearer about life purpose.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets current thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses straightforward exercises and small experiments to change patterns, which can be done between sessions and reviewed in video or messaging formats.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Vani will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts tools and pacing based on what feels most helpful during the first sessions and ongoing check-ins.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues; phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text-based messaging work for shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage childcare, or continue care while relocating.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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