Dr. Anat Anais

Dr. Anat Anais is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, eating and body image concerns, addictions, and challenges around intimacy and parenting. Dr. Anais works in New York and offers services in English and Hebrew.

She practices from a person-centered, humanistic stance that focuses on strengths. Sessions are tailored rather than one-size-fits-all. She listens for what matters to each person and builds a plan around their goals and daily life.

Her approach draws on a mix of methods including attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally focused techniques, and motivational interviewing. That mix helps address patterns in relationships, unhelpful thoughts, emotional regulation, and motivation for change.

Dr. Anais emphasizes clear, practical steps alongside deeper emotional work. Conversations can include exploring past experiences, identifying current patterns, and trying new behaviors between sessions. The aim is steady progress at a pace that feels manageable.

With a background in social work and long clinical experience, she brings familiarity with many life challenges such as abandonment issues, family of origin problems, adoption and foster care concerns, and coping after disasters. People who choose her can expect a collaborative, respectful approach focused on real-life improvements.

How online sessions use attachment and emotion-focused work

Dr. Anais integrates attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused therapy to help people understand relationship patterns and respond differently in close connections. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape expectations and ways of relating, which can help with intimacy, abandonment, and family of origin concerns. Emotionally-focused techniques focus on identifying and expressing core emotions so they can be processed rather than avoided.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and test small behavior changes between sessions. That combination helps address eating and body image issues, anxiety, and mood difficulties in a practical way. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist works with each person to figure out which methods match their goals and preferences.

Session formats are not specified in the provided biography, so please confirm current online session options before booking. Many people find online therapy easier to fit into a busy schedule, manage follow-up between meetings, and maintain continuity of care when travel or location make in-person visits difficult. The focus is on finding an approach and a rhythm of sessions that fit daily life and support steady progress.