About Elaina
Elaina helps individuals and couples heal from trauma and build healthier, more connected relationships with themselves and others. Her work is rooted in the belief that therapy should be tailored to each person’s unique history, identity, and lived experience.
Arriondo Counseling is a fully affirming telehealth practice where people from all walks of life can feel welcome, seen, and supported from the comfort of their own space. Elaina’s style is direct yet friendly—she offers clear guidance and grounding while helping clients make sense of difficult emotions and experiences. Her goal is for each person to leave therapy feeling more hopeful, empowered, and equipped with practical tools for life’s challenges.
Elaina is trained in Brainspotting and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She earned her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN. She is licensed in Tennessee (#2071) and working toward full licensure in Washington State. Elaina currently provides telehealth therapy for adults and couples located in Tennessee and will be expanding to include clients in Washington soon.
Services
Individual Therapy
Elaina provides individual telehealth therapy for adults seeking support with trauma, stress, and emotional regulation. Her approach is systemic, trauma-informed, experiential, and culturally responsive, recognizing that healing happens in the context of both personal history and the systems we live within.
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Using Brainspotting and other body-based methods, Elaina helps clients process emotional pain, release stored tension, and reconnect with a sense of safety and balance. She works with individuals navigating anxiety, ADHD, autism, burnout, and sensory or emotional overwhelm, as well as those exploring identity, intersectionality, and belonging. Her clients often include LGBTQ+ adults, multicultural and multiracial individuals, and first- or second-generation immigrants learning to balance multiple worlds and expectations.
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Sessions focus on grounding, clarity, and practical tools for real life. Elaina believes that awareness is the foundation of change, and that every client has the capacity to deepen self-understanding, improve emotional regulation, and build a more authentic, connected life.
Couples Therapy
Elaina provides couples telehealth therapy for partners seeking to strengthen connection, rebuild trust, and improve communication. Every individual brings their own complex history, culture, and identity into a relationship, and Elaina helps couples use this knowledge to see new perspectives and reach greater understanding.
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Her approach integrates Gottman Method Couples Therapy with trauma-informed and experiential practices, creating a balance of structure and empathy. Sessions focus on identifying communication patterns, addressing underlying pain, and learning research-based strategies to navigate conflict and deepen intimacy.
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Elaina has extensive experience working with affairs, trust repair, military-family dynamics, and couples navigating neurodivergence. She welcomes all couples and family configurations—including LGBTQ+ partners, neurodivergent couples, multicultural and multiracial relationships, military families, and those practicing ethical non-monogamy (ENM) or polyamory. She believes that relationship repair happens through curiosity, compassion, and the willingness to learn each other anew.
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Brainspotting
“Where you look affects how you feel.”
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Brainspotting uses this natural mind–body connection to help locate, process, and release stored emotional and physical pain. It works by harnessing the brain’s innate ability to heal itself—tapping into the places where trauma, stress, or overwhelm have become stuck and gently allowing them to move.
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In sessions, Elaina guides clients to notice where their eyes naturally focus as they access difficult emotions or sensations. These eye positions link to deep brain processes tied to memory, regulation, and resilience. Through this focused attention, clients often experience relief from symptoms of trauma, anxiety, depression, burnout, chronic stress, and sensory or emotional overload.
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Brainspotting can be particularly supportive for neurodivergent adults (including those with ADHD or autism), individuals recovering from trauma, LGBTQ+ clients, and those who have tried talk therapy but feel something deeper remains unprocessed.
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All sessions are offered via secure telehealth, allowing you to do this work safely from your own environment.
Learn more at www.brainspotting.com.
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Contact Info
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Mailing Address
(931) 330-0695
6339 Charlotte Pike PMB 2030,
Nashville, TN 37209