About Loretta
Loretta Collins (Begg) is an MD and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Maryland. She moved from a long career in sales into mental health and now draws on four years of clinical experience. She offers straightforward, practical care for people coping with anxiety, stress, mood changes, and substance use concerns.
Her approach treats therapy as a partnership where the client's goals guide the work. She uses client-centered methods to meet people where they are.
Background and approach
That means listening first and shaping sessions around each person’s priorities. Loretta also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors that reduce distress. Her background includes working with people facing addiction and co-occurring conditions such as post-traumatic stress, major depressive disorder, eating-related issues, and bipolar mood patterns.
She focuses on real-life problems like caregiver strain, workplace stress, impulse control, and feelings of emptiness or shame. She also helps with anger, career uncertainty, and body image concerns. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth.
Clients can expect clear steps to practice between visits and check-ins about what is or isn’t working. Loretta aims to reduce stigma around psychological concerns and to treat mental health like any other health issue. Her work is offered in English and provided through a mix of remote session formats.
People interested in starting fill out a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s needs. In practice this means the therapist asks open questions, reflects what she hears, and follows the client’s priorities so sessions feel relevant and respectful. It can help with feelings of emptiness, shame, caregiver strain, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood problems, addiction-related patterns, and anger management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try techniques that match what the client needs and prefers. Clients and the therapist collaborate to adjust methods over time until they find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between scheduled visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue care from different locations.
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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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