I live in a town where people send in their valentines every single year from all over the world to be re-mailed from the Sweetheart City of Loveland, CO. Over 130,000 people from all 50 states and 110 counties send their love through this city at Valentine’s Day each year. It seemed fitting for me to launch doctorloveland.com on Valentine’s Day 2016, the 70th anniversary of Loveland’s Valentine re-mailing program.

Being a relationship expert and skilled therapist who lives in this lovely Loveland town, I figure I can contribute to the “sweetheart” theme of this town by reading and processing your love stories from eventually all 50 states and 110+ countries by offering some guidance and empowerment. This is a town of love and art, passion and family. It is my honor to represent Loveland with the gifts I was given to freely share with you all the wisdom and knowledge I have gained to help anyone I can. I would never recommend writing into an advice column to replace real face-to-face therapy (if desired or needed), but sometimes in life whether in therapy or not, we just get real stuck and need an extra outside perspective from an intuitive, heartfelt therapist. You found your gal. Write in, share with me your story and then check back because I will post your story and my response here on this blog.

Be prepared for your life to change just because you sent your valentine (your love story or question) through the Sweetheart City of Loveland, Colorado to your “love doctor”, Doctor Loveland.

Looking for free love advice? Allow me to introduce myself… I am Doctor Loveland, the “Sweetheart Doctor” writing to you from the Sweetheart City of Loveland, Colorado. Most of my life people have come to me with their relationship problems or wishes, their longings and crushes, their heartaches and struggles. Helping these people with sweetheart advice has been a lifelong hobby and now I am here for anyone to reach me worldwide so I can spend my evenings replying to your lovely messages and dilemmas, to post on this blog for all to see and benefit from your story and my advice. On paper I am a LMFT (licensed marriage family therapist) with a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology, and many, many years of experience sitting with clients of all types of stories and backgrounds, healing and helping. It’s what I do. No, I am not a medical doctor. But I certainly have done my “residency” in the hospital of relationships with the births and the deaths, the sick and the well. I have seen and experienced it all. No, I am not a PhDoctor. But I certainly have written my dissertation on love and relationships, oh I could write 7 of them.

Listening to you is my passion, responding to your issues is my calling. Whether you are 12 or 21 or 55 or 95, I am here. I have lived on different coasts and immersed myself in every diversity you can think of, so I am as open-minded as they come. Relationships are relationships. If you want to write to me about the sweetheart kind of love, then do it, it is my forte. We are also in relationships with our mothers, our bosses, our friends, our pets, our phones (yikes!), and our coffee. In fact, you and I just entered into a relationship. So write to me about any kind of relationship you could use some expert, outside advice about from a professional with a gift as a “love doctor”. I promise, you will be one step closer to your relationship solutions.

When I was in college I drove a yellow Beetle with a bright red bumper sticker that read, “Love Heals”. It does. It also disintegrates people and changes people and brings out the worst in people and brings out the best. It transforms. It takes work. It’s worth a holiday over, makes for the best movies and could arguably be worth some expensive wedding costs (maybe :P), but it is also complicatedly simple and good when it is real and healthy and happy. I wish that kind of love for you. It does exist. It’s the journey to find it and keep it that makes life interesting. It is what all the best stories are about so let our story begin here… Happy Healing.