Our Mission
Lotus Counseling and Wellness, LLC was established in March 2023 to serve the following purposes:
Lotus strives to provide affordable, quality, holistic, and accessible wellness services to the community.
Lotus strives to provide a life giving, healing, supportive, challenging work environment for wellness providers.
Lotus strives to collaborate with, support and encourage other wellness providers in our community.
Lotus Counseling and Wellness offers ethical and evidenced based therapy to Louisiana residents. We strive to provide a warm, trauma informed, and culturally sensitive environment for all to heal and build resilience.
Our mental health providers come from a variety of cultural backgrounds that are unified by a Christian worldview that stem from various denominations within the Christian faith. In this way, we are unified by a sense of empathy and compassion for all. We believe each individual’s journey is unique and to be honored, and we value and respect all those who come to heal alongside us. This aligns with our duty as Mental Health Providers. As such, we are bound by our code of ethics to provide a space of unconditional positive regard and empathy. This means you will be met with great compassion, openness without judgement, and freedom to explore. We look forward to working alongside you as you heal and grow along the path to reach your goals!
Who We Are
Meet the Owners & Founders
Auriel Campbell and Trent Istre - Married Couple
Lotus Counseling and Wellness is co-owned by married couple, Auriel Campbell, MA, LPC and Trent Istre. They both envisioned providing the Acadiana area with an integrative team of counselors. Alongside providing quality, affordable mental health care to Louisiana, Auriel and Trent wanted to create a nourishing group practice for mental health clinicians. Lotus is a team oriented group counseling practice. Through this approach we believe each client will receive the best care.
Auriel Campbell has been serving Louisiana as a counselor since 2019. She has worked extensively with clients experiencing complex trauma, medical trauma, complex chronic illness and pain, and spiritual abuse. She is an EMDRIA approved EMDR Consultant & Trainerand level 2 Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Currently she is focusing on being owner and clinical director at Lotus Counseling and Wellness to ensure quality care is provided to clients and to the Lotus clinicians. Alongside these endeavors, she has launched several sandtray therapy trainings, Parts Work trainings and EMDR trainings. In her spare time she enjoys pottery, reading, Pilates, writing, and collaging.
Trent Istre recently began his graduate studies in Marriage and Family Counseling at Colorado Christian University. Prior to his studies, he was a Mechanical Engineer for 10 years. Trent enjoys wood working, gardening, bee keeping, working on cars, and any type of new project you bring his way.
Together Auriel and Trent enjoy the country life with their three pups, Zeke, Mose and Chip.
Stay tuned as Lotus continues to grow to better care for your needs!