Fernando Loredo, MA, LMFT

• Populations Served: adults, couples, families

• Specialties: anxiety, depression, trauma (IPV and abuse), substance use disorders, stress management, marriage counseling, intimacy issues, Christian counseling, and cross-cultural issues & expat life transitions, family counseling

• Education:

  • Masters in Family Therapy (University of Houston-Clear Lake)

  • Bachelors in Psychology and History (University of Houston)

• Location: Texas (telehealth only)

• Insurance: not accepted

• Self-pay cost: $150 per session

Getting to know Fernando

Fernando loves the possibility and experience of healing and restoration in one’s life, particularly in our most significant relationships.  He strongly holds to a simple core belief that we were created to be in relationships, as Thomas Merton stated, “we do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”  However, because things are not as they “should be” in many of our relationships, deep wounds often replace the joy we long for.  Therefore, Fernando’s desire is always for meaningful change to occur… change that can restore the most significant relationships we have or teach us how to build healthy ones that can last.  

Born and raised in Houston allowed Fernando to greatly appreciate diversity and cultures from all over.  Later in life, his faith and love for adventure led him to live on the opposite side of the world for almost a decade.  He and his family consider themselves tri-cultural and love to explore new places around the world.  Free time these days might be spent rock climbing with his kids, biking, enjoying reading some of his favorite authors like C.S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, or A.W. Tozer, or playing card games as a family.  When he’s not in session or hanging out with his wife and kids, Fernando also loves to teach and give lectures on an array of topics or just sit, listen, and encourage dear friends over a good meal.  

Style and Approach

Although goals and desired change is often what brings people to therapy, Fernando first understands the need for a safe space to simply come as you are.  He has personally learned from the greatest of all teachers and taken to heart a desire to be gentle and lowly, bringing not only evidenced-based techniques but also compassion to each session.  He utilizes a collaborative approach with his clients while maintaining a systemic framework that highlights the relational context of one’s life.  He has always been humbled and honored by the invitation of his clients to briefly step “behind the curtain” of their lives, listen to their stories, and walk alongside them as they write the next few chapters of their journey.  

Fernando primarily works with couples and adult individuals, but has also enjoyed working with the whole family system.  He specializes in significant relationship distress, substance abuse and addictions impacting family systems, trauma, anxiety, depression, as well as cross-cultural and expat mental health issues.