Loretta Young-Wright
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Loretta
Loretta Young-Wright is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 35 years of practice in mental health. She has worked in child welfare and educational settings and brings that background into her sessions. Loretta focuses on practical ways to ease stress, worry, grief, parenting challenges, trauma, and self-esteem struggles.
Her style is collaborative and strengths-based. Sessions are grounded in real skills you can use between meetings. She uses clear techniques drawn from evidence-based work and keeps explanations straightforward and concrete.
Background and approach
In therapy she blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - a method that looks at thinking and behavior patterns - with mindfulness practices that teach calm and present-moment awareness. She also uses solution-focused strategies to set short-term, achievable goals. These tools are chosen to match each person’s needs rather than applied the same way to everyone.
Loretta aims to build an open, respectful space where people feel listened to. She emphasizes practical coping skills, increased self-awareness, and resilience. Her long experience includes many settings, which helps her adapt approaches to different situations.
She offers services from Illinois and provides sessions in English. Therapy is delivered online in various formats so people can choose what works best for their schedule and comfort.
Evidence-Based Tools and Online Care
Loretta uses several well-established approaches tailored to household and parenting stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that affect mood and worry. It is useful when stress or anxiety get in the way of daily life.She also uses mindfulness-based practices that teach simple attention and breathing skills. These techniques can reduce reactivity and help with grief or trauma-related symptoms by training calmer responses. Solution-focused strategies are used to set short-term, concrete goals so progress is visible and manageable.
Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which tools fit the person’s goals, lifestyle, and comfort level. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and new issues arise.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care when in-person visits are not possible. Online work also lets licensed professionals use worksheets, short exercises, and conversation in flexible ways to support steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
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Also works with
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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