Lotus Counseling & Wellness

11/11/2025

11/03/2025

Looking for an amazing trauma therapist that accepts BCBS and UHC?

Hannah has a few spots open and is an amazing EMDR, Sandtray and Parts Work therapist.

She works with teens and adults with neurodivergence, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and OCD.

Learn more about Hannah here: www.lotuscounselingandwellness.com/hannah

10/31/2025

We hope you have a purrrfectly sweet Halloween with all the yummy candy! 🍭🍫🍬

10/27/2025

Meet our new administrator, Grace!

When you have questions, concerns, or are ready to schedule, you will get the pleasure of speaking with Grace.

She handles intake calls, texts, and emails and general questions you may have about Lotus and our counselors.

Welcome to the dream team, Grace!

10/14/2025

Happy Tuesday from Gabby, Charlotte, Hannah and Zeke! 🪷🐾

10/02/2025

Happy 5th birthday to our favorite emotional support pup, Zeke!!!!!!

09/24/2025

It is the greatest privilege to hold space for each of our clients in their hurts and hard times... to be nominated and voted as one of Acadiana's best Mental Health Services two years in row is just humbling.

There are so many wonderful Counselors, Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nurse Practiioners, Social Workers that go unseen serving our community that I believe at the end of the day are the true winners.

Shoutout to Willow Mental Wellness and Recovery for winning GOLD two years in a row in Mental Health Services! So well deserved! We refer to Addie and her team regularly for medication management and the quality of care is pristine.

Once again, thank you Acadiana for giving us a chance to serve you- it truly is an honor.

08/28/2025

CONGRATS GENEVIEVE!!!

She now has her Masters in Counseling and is a provisionally licensed counselor in the state of Louisiana!

Not to mention around the end of September she is expected to be certified in Exposure and Response Prevention which is the gold standard for OCD. To say she has been busy is an understatement.

To learn more about her services, check out her bio here: www.lotuscounselingandwellness.com/genevieve

08/21/2025

Learn more and schedule with Rae: www.lotuscounselingandwellness.com/rae

08/16/2025

The Lotus Dream Team did their fun, quarterly team hangout at Painting With a Twist!!! We had a blast!!

Of course we had to pick a lotus for our painting 🪷

These intentional times together help build the culture of support, intentionality, and genuine joy of being in eachother’s company that our clients sense when they come to Lotus.

We hope you all have something life giving planned this weekend! Consider Painting with a Twist! They create a fun and relaxing atmosphere for all painting levels!

08/12/2025

Did you know that at Lotus 9 of our 12 counselors utilize EMDR Therapy?

EMDR is one of the leading trauma therapies of our day that is also utilized for anxiety, depression, OCD, addiction, and chronic pain.

It is based off the theory of Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) which believes our body and brain intuitively knows how to heal itself. However, when someone experiences a traumatic event, it is as if the trauma gets stuck in our brain and nervous system where it repeats itself in the present as if the trauma is still present. EMDR utilizes bilateral stimulation to help dislodge the trauma for it to flow through Adaptive Information Processing.

Within an EMDR session, a client will pick an area of focus/ target to process. The client will identify an image, a negative cognitive belief, sensation and emotion connected within this target and measure his/ her distress level. The EMDR trained clinician will then perform bilateral stimulation whether visually, auditorily or kinesthetically with tappers to activate the AIP processing. The client will then perform free association from the target such as watching the images pass by as you riding on a train. The brain will then instinctively work through the connected neural memories with that specific traumatic target.

Learn more about EMDR Therapy with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg842qP83yc