Scott Loorz

If you would like to use insurance, Scott accepts Aetna, Blue Shield of CA, Cigna, Magellan, and Gold Coast Health Plan.

Scott Loorz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a warm and compassionate approach. For over 20 years Scott has worked with clients who are experiencing difficulty with anxiety, depression, grief, substance abuse, trauma, establishing or maintaining healthy relationships, and parenting. He works with adults, parents, teens, and families. Scott brings his humor, honesty, and compassion to every session.

Scott approaches therapy as a collaborative process that can bring about rapid relief but also produce lasting change. He enjoys helping his clients gain insight into the issues that have brought them into therapy and create tools to successfully resolve those issues.

Scott always seeks to create an environment of acceptance and support in his sessions, knowing that clients have sought help to address problems that they have found confusing, discouraging, or even embarrassing to talk about.

Scott has tailored his approach to each client’s needs and personalities. These approaches might include:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) uses mindfulness-based processes to help clients find greater acceptance of their symptoms and circumstances, improve their psychological flexibility and identify a path forward to connect with the values they want to embody.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach through which people develop helpful positive and healthy thinking patterns about themselves and others, and acquire healthy behaviors. Many clients find this approach very helpful in addressing anxiety, and depression
• Brainspotting uses neurobiological tools to help clients identify, process, and release painful emotions and traumatic memories which reduces their impact in their lives.
• Attachment-Focused Therapy can provide a framework for clients to understand their challenges in personal and professional relationships.