Tsveta Laleva is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy.
Tsveta is a licensed supervisor for our associate MFT program. She enjoys the rewarding process of helping therapists and clients learn more about themselves through the practice of therapy.
Tsveta welcomes clients of all ages and especially those with anxiety and depression. Her passion and expertise is working with young adults, and families, and couples. Her couples work includes longer sessions and depth work to provide clarity and future-oriented action plans.
Tsveta has advanced training with trauma, grief and loss, difficult disorders, and symptoms that affect quality of life. She has completed intensive training in EMDR, an effective treatment approach to adverse life experiences. Tsveta provides a safe and positive environment to explore feelings and solve problems.
Tsveta is a certified DBT therapist (dialectical behavior therapy) and has advanced training in CBT, ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy), and IFS (internal family systems). She is skilled at teaching emotional regulation skills and mindfulness, and incorporates Loyal Blue’s solution-focused approach with every client.
Tsveta immigrated to United States from Eastern Europe. Her bicultural background makes her especially helpful working with different values, belief systems, and diversity. She is a quick learner, skilled at seeing the big picture, and very patient.
Tsveta is accepting new clients, and available for in-person sessions as well as telehealth within the state of California.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #96983
Tsveta Specializes In:
- Depression
- Anxiety, including social anxiety and self-esteem issues
- Family relationship topics, including parenting and acculturation
- Trauma, grief and loss
- College and high school students looking for coping skills and school-related overwhelm
- Adults who want to better understand themselves or their relationships
Recent Trainings and Seminars
- Calming an Overactive Brain: An exploration into the role the overactive brain plays in anxiety, PTSD, depression, chronic stress and more. How evidence-based, practical methods can improve well-being.
- Play Therapy To Transform Challenging Children: Treatment that helps extremely dysregulated children build trust and increase self-esteem.
- Suicide and Self-Harm: Treatment Essentials for Helping Clients Confront Emotional Pain. Treatment strategies to help clients understand their goals behind suicide and self-harm and learn new ways to achieve these goals.
- Dialectical Behavioral Training Certificate Course (DBT): DBT is an empirically validated approach for working with a range of mental health issues. Designed to empower clients to establish mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- Treating Complex Trauma in Family Systems: Hailed by Dr. van der Kolk, the world’s leading expert in trauma, IFS is “the treatment method that all clinicians working with trauma should know.”
- Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: The most up-to-date and effective treatment for today’s students.
- Trauma Therapy That Works
- The Basics of Maternal Health: Assessment and Treatment
- EMDR Intensive Clinical Training: The tri-phasic stage model remains today’s state-of-the-art treatment approach for all but single incident trauma. During this training, you will learn the goals of each stage, along with the therapeutic tools to reach those goals.
- Addiction and Shame Dual Certification Training: Get the skills to blend CBT, DBT, REBT, Psychodynamic, and Family & Group Therapy strategies with innovative addiction treatment models and proven strategies for uprooting shame to restore order to a hijacked brain reward system.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, CA MFT#96983.
