About Yael
Dr. Yael Banai is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with thirty years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, or big life changes.
Her manner is calm and empathetic, and she treats each person as an individual with strengths and limits. She has worked often in school settings and has experience supporting teens and young adults. She also addresses work and career concerns, parenting and family-related stress, anger, low self-esteem, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include communication problems, impulsivity, autism and Asperger syndrome, intellectual disability, veteran and armed forces issues, and women's issues. Her style is low key and respectful. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person's needs.
She draws on client-centered ideas to follow what matters to the client and on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses psychodynamic perspectives to look at patterns that repeat over time, and solution-focused steps to set small, practical goals. Treatment plans are shaped around each person's situation rather than a single formula.
Dr. Banai describes therapy as a journey that begins with a single step. She aims to help people take that step with realistic goals, steady support, and practical tools for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches that suit online work
Dr. Banai uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person in session. That approach focuses on listening, understanding the client's perspective, and building on existing strengths to guide change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, another common approach she uses, helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework tasks that translate well to online formats.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then shape a plan that can include listening-focused work, skills practice, or short-term solution steps. Clients and therapist check in regularly to adjust the approach as issues change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor 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