About Loretta
Dr. Loretta Markus is a psychologist licensed in Wisconsin with seven years of professional experience. She works with adults who are juggling stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, life changes, concentration and focus concerns including ADHD, and other mental health challenges.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful, and she aims to make the first step feel less daunting for people reaching out for help. In sessions she listens closely and adapts conversations to each person.
Background and approach
She builds a plan together with clients rather than using one fixed method. That means practical steps, short-term goals, and strategies you can try between appointments. She uses techniques drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, and mindfulness to address everyday problems.
Those tools help with managing anxious thoughts, improving focus, and changing habits that get in the way of daily functioning. Dr. Markus also incorporates motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies when people need clear direction and quick adjustments.
These approaches support goal setting, overcoming resistance, and tracking progress in measurable ways. Her background includes helping people with stressors across life stages, relationship and family concerns, mood and panic symptoms, and issues around addiction, identity, and intimacy. She explains options in plain language and involves clients in choosing what to try next.
If someone prefers working remotely, she offers a variety of formats and will help match the format and approach to the person's needs and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Dr. Markus draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based work to help people change unhelpful thinking patterns and notice stress responses in daily life. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety or procrastination and replacing them with practical steps. Mindfulness techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus.She also uses client-centered principles that emphasize respectful listening and tailoring the plan to each person's goals. Finding the right mix of methods is a shared process; she works with clients to try approaches, check what helps, and adjust the plan based on preferences and outcomes.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can fit a shorter break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to arrange regular appointments around work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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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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