About Loretta
Dr. Loretta Markus is a licensed psychologist in Wisconsin with seven years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes.
Her style is warm and respectful, and she focuses on clear, practical conversations that fit each persons needs. Patients often come for anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trouble concentrating, or difficulties with memory and focus. She also supports people facing addiction concerns, mood swings, or issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Dr. Markus pays attention to what matters most to each person and adjusts the plan accordingly. Her sessions use plain language and steady listening rather than jargon.
She works together with clients to set short-term goals and to find simple ways to cope day to day. That can mean practicing new thinking strategies, learning calming skills, or setting small steps toward change. Dr.
Markus draws on several practical methods, including cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, client-centered conversations, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. She blends these approaches to match a persons goals, not to follow a single formula. People who prefer straightforward coaching-style guidance alongside therapy often find her approach helpful.
She aims to make the process clear from the start and to help people build tools they can use after sessions end. To begin, she asks people to describe their main concerns and priorities so sessions focus on what matters now. Her work is meant to be collaborative, goal-oriented, and adaptable as needs change.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a persons experience. It helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers practical skills to reduce anxiety and manage panic or mood shifts. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that lower stress and improve focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then recommend strategies that fit their situation. That collaborative planning means techniques can be adjusted over time as needs and progress become clearer.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging can work well for quick check-ins, short coaching-style exchanges, or when written reflection is helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and other commitments while using approaches that help with anxiety and stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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