About Yael
Dr. Yael Banai is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from Louisiana with thirty years of experience. She offers calm, down-to-earth support for adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and career or life transitions.
Her style is empathetic and nonjudgmental, aimed at recognizing each person’s strengths alongside their struggles. She often draws on client-centered methods that let the client lead the pace and topics of work. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used when people want practical tools to manage thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Psychodynamic elements help uncover patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices. Dr. Banai has worked frequently in school settings and with young adults, and she has experience across a range of concerns including personality issues, impulse control, and communication problems.
She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar concerns, and questions related to autism or intellectual disability. Sessions are collaborative. Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
She treats each person as a unique individual rather than a label, and she adapts methods to fit real-life needs. Her approach suits people who want straightforward conversations, clear coping strategies, and space to reflect on deeper life patterns. She accepts international clients and offers several online formats so therapy can fit into busy schedules.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Dr. Banai commonly uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person. This approach focuses on listening, validating feelings, and helping clients find their own solutions, which can be useful for stress, relationship patterns, and self-esteem issues.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which offers concrete strategies for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT can be especially helpful for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and for people who want step-by-step tools to use between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to identify goals, tries methods that fit those goals, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. This lets clients test what helps and discard what doesn't in an active, shared process.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let clients send notes or brief updates when schedules are tight or when a written check-in feels easier. These options give flexibility so therapy can continue from different locations and on varied schedules without losing continuity.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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