About Anat
Dr. Anat Anais helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports concerns around addiction, grief, intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, and career stress.
Dr. Anais is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience in New York. She communicates in English and Hebrew.
Her background includes a master's and doctorate in social work from Adelphi University in New York State.
Background and approach
She has worked with people from many backgrounds and with a wide range of concerns over her career. That experience shapes how she understands each person's unique situation. In sessions she uses a person-centered stance that centers the client's goals.
She combines practical talk with attention to how the body and emotions show up, drawing on somatic ideas alongside cognitive and relational approaches. That means she attends to feelings, patterns in relationships, and unhelpful thoughts, and she asks how these show up in the body. Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental.
She works with each person to build a plan that fits their needs and preferences. This can involve short-term skill building or longer-term work on deep patterns. Dr.
Anais describes her practice as strengths oriented. She helps people notice what already works for them and builds on those strengths while addressing painful patterns. Practical steps and steady reflection are balanced in sessions to support daily life changes.
Approaches and what online work looks like
Dr. Anat Anais combines somatic-informed work with attachment-based and client-centered approaches to help people cope with difficult feelings and relationship patterns. Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and trauma live in the body and uses awareness of bodily sensations to reduce distress and regain calm. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building goals that matter to the individual.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Dr. Anais collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts strategies over time, mixing talk, skill practice, and body-focused awareness based on how someone responds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for this kind of work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and the chance to notice bodily signals. Phone sessions can be useful when video isn't practical. Live chat and text-based messaging give options for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on relationships, emotions, and everyday coping.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Hebrew