About Loretta
Loretta Collins (Begg) trained as a medical doctor and holds a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential. She shifted into mental health after a long sales career and now blends medical understanding with counseling practice. Loretta focuses on worries like anxiety, mood disturbances, addictions, and stress.
She uses clear, direct communication and aims to make therapy feel like a shared effort. She leans on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person’s goals guide sessions.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is also part of her work and helps people notice and change thinking patterns that fuel distress. Those approaches are applied to concerns such as trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. Loretta has experience supporting people with substance use disorders and co-occurring conditions, including eating-related issues and post-traumatic stress.
She also helps with caregiver stress, career concerns, anger, and codependency. Her background combines clinical training and hands-on experience with people facing complex, overlapping problems. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while staying rooted in the person’s values.
She invites clients to set the pace and priorities for therapy. Conversations often include skills practice, simple behavioral experiments, and direct discussion about coping strategies. Clients in Maryland can expect straightforward language and steps they can use between sessions.
Loretta aims to reduce the stigma around mental health by treating psychological struggles as real medical issues. Her approach is steady, respectful, and focused on real-life changes.
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person’s goals. In practice this means sessions begin by asking what matters most and adjusting pace and topics to match needs. That approach is helpful for building trust and navigating sensitive issues such as trauma or caregiver stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Typical work includes identifying patterns, trying small behavior experiments, and practicing new coping tools between sessions. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and addiction-related challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to decide whether a client-centered focus, CBT techniques, or a blend will serve their goals best. The plan is adjusted as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support short updates, homework check-ins, and flexible communication between scheduled sessions. These options help people keep continuity and practice skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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