About Myra
Myra Botello uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and low self-esteem. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with 12 years of experience.
Background and approach
Myra speaks English and Spanish and meets people where they are, offering straightforward guidance and steady support. She focuses on helping clients who struggle with depression, attention and concentration challenges often linked to ADHD, and social anxiety or phobia.
Sessions also address communication problems, guilt and shame, and building self-love and confidence. Myra emphasizes small, doable steps so progress feels manageable.
In sessions she listens first and helps clients set clear goals. Conversations often include practical skills for calming anxiety, improving focus, and managing difficult memories.
She helps people notice strengths they already have and use those strengths to change habits that cause pain. Myra offers a mix of conversation and skills practice tailored to what each person needs.
She encourages people to try different approaches and notice what helps. Her style is direct, warm, and focused on real-life results.
To begin, she asks people to describe what matters most and what they want to change. From there she and the client create a plan with simple steps and check-ins to track progress.
Many clients find steady relief by working on one thing at a time.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Myra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and real-world change. One common approach she uses teaches practical tools for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, grounding exercises, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These techniques help reduce avoidance and build coping skills for daily life.She also works with strategies aimed at attention and focus, offering routines and behavioral techniques that support concentration and memory. These methods break tasks into smaller steps, build structure, and teach simple habits to improve day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Myra will work with each person to understand their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She invites feedback and tailors sessions so techniques feel useful and doable.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can be a good option when video is difficult, and messaging or live chat works for shorter check-ins or when people need more frequent, brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and continue work between sessions.
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish