Vani Burnette

Vani Burnette is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 18 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her plain, direct approach helps when life feels overwhelming or stuck.

Vani commonly helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and career strain. She supports those coping with relationship problems, family concerns, parenting struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy. She also works with people facing eating or sleeping difficulties, anger, compassion fatigue, and process addictions such as compulsive gambling or exercise patterns.

Her work mixes client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies. She uses attachment-based ideas and narrative therapy as needed to understand relationship patterns and personal stories. Sessions emphasize clear goals, small experiments, and skills people can use between meetings.

Vani pays attention to how identity, culture, and life transitions shape a person’s choices. She also addresses harder-to-name struggles like emptiness, codependency, control issues, and guilt or shame. Narcissism is listed among the additional focus areas she has experience with and may discuss when it relates to a client’s concerns.

She speaks English and Spanish and practices in California. Her background includes an undergraduate degree in nutrition and dietetics, which can inform conversations about eating and health behaviors. To begin, a person completes a short questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist’s availability.

Vani frames therapy as a collaborative effort. She aims to create clear steps forward, help people regain agency, and build coping skills that fit their daily lives.

How her approaches guide online work

Vani draws on client-centered therapy to create a respectful, listening-first space where people can say what matters to them. This approach helps people clarify goals and feel understood before moving into specific strategies.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating concerns, and coping with life changes. Attachment-based ideas are used to track patterns in close relationships and how early connections affect present-day reactions, which can help with intimacy and codependency issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they set clear, manageable steps and check progress as treatment continues.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats. Please confirm available formats before booking. In general, working with a licensed professional remotely can make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and help sessions fit into busy days. Remote sessions can also allow shorter check-ins when needed or reduce the need to be on camera, depending on the agreed format.