Hi, I’m Loretta Blevins, I work as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor or LPCC for short. I am licensed through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. I have a Masters of Clinical Counseling and Early Childhood Mental Health, been in practice for about 7 years. I work collaboratively, in conversation with my clients. We will work together to explore your present thoughts and feelings so that you develop a better sense of self-awareness and mindfulness to your everyday life. I want to acknowledge your courage in taking this first step towards becoming your best self because, let's be honest - starting therapy can be empowering, confusing, and misunderstood, all at the same time. I will create a safe and welcoming environment that you can explore obstacles and concerns related to anxiety, depression, and/or self-care. I focus on helping clients develop assertive communication & boundaries with themselves and those around them that can help improve their quality of life.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together we will first take care of introductions, review of the informed consents and any questions you may have about therapy, or me. I am very transparent and want you to feel comfortable. At your pace we will collaborate on what brings you to therapy and what you want to get out of our time together.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I have worked with Mothers, (and I am a Mom) Couples, and Children for over a decade. Through these experiences, I have gained compassion and empathy for individuals navigating in these roles. I relate on deep level to people of color and how being marginalized can impact health and well being. I have passionately enjoyed successfully empowering individuals to heal and grow from their struggles.
About Loretta Blevins
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Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can address issues that keep people from treatment. As an intervention, ACT benefits and appeals to potential clients with trauma because it is a non-pathologizing approach. I am able to connect with clients with ACT because it promotes the understanding that suffering is part of the human condition (not a dysfunctional, diagnosable disorder). ACT normalizes suffering, normalizes pain, and normalizes avoidance as normal human responses, while at the same time, I utilize ACT to help individuals move toward more value-driven living.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I understand cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has the goal of the reduction of symptoms; for example, a purpose of CBT is to reduce negative thoughts. When helping individuals with anxiety, depression, trauma, I use this psychotherapeutic treatment to help people identify and change automatic negative thoughts or reactions; as well as helping them identify, challenge, and replace these thoughts with more realistic and objective ones.
Compassion Focused
My experience with Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) helps me utilize this therapeutic approach to help those who struggle with shame and self-criticism, often resulting from early experiences of abuse or neglect. With CFT I collaborate with clients to teach them to cultivate the skills of self-compassion and other-oriented compassion, to help regulate mood and lead to feelings of safety, self-acceptance, and comfort.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that emphasizes the therapist's understanding of a client’s background and belief system as it relates to their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or other important elements that make up someone’s culture and/or identity.