About Trisha Botello, LPC

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Relationship-Centered Approach to Therapy

My work is grounded in attachment science and a deep understanding of how relationships shape the ways we experience ourselves and one another. I specialize in couples and relationship therapy, with advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based approach that helps people understand and change the patterns that contribute to conflict, disconnection, and distress.

For more than 15 years, my work has centered on relationships, attachment, conflict, and the ways people adapt during difficult seasons of life. 

I spent several years working in the New Orleans school system, including helping to design and lead a therapeutic alternative school grounded in the belief that behavior makes sense in the context of relationship, environment, and nervous system experience. That work also led to extensive training and experience in restorative practices—deepening my ability to work with conflict, de-escalate reactivity, and help people repair relational ruptures while preserving dignity and connection.

That foundation continues to shape how I work today. When partners are stuck in cycles of blame, withdrawal, or escalation, I help slow the process down, make sense of each person’s emotional experience, and guide them toward new interactions that foster safety and responsiveness.

In addition to my clinical training, I am a qualified mediator, with experience in conflict resolution, coparenting, and complex family dynamics. This background strengthens my ability to help couples and families navigate difficult conversations with greater structure, clarity, and understanding.

I also bring advanced training in somatic embodiment-based approaches. Because emotional experience lives in the body, I help clients track and regulate their nervous systems in real time—supporting deeper emotional access, reducing overwhelm, and making new relational experiences feel more possible and sustainable.

Whether you’re coming in for individual therapy, couples therapy, or support navigating a family transition, our work will focus on understanding the patterns that keep you stuck—not as personal failures, but as protective strategies that once made sense. We’ll create new experiences of connection, clarity, and responsiveness so you can move forward in a way that feels more secure, grounded, and connected.


Concentrated Training

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples
  • Restorative Practices & Conflict Resolution
  • Somatic Embodiment & Regulation
  • Trauma & Grief Component Therapy
  • Child-Parent Psychotherapy

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