About Duane
Duane Winter is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota with seven years of clinical experience. He approaches each person with warmth and respect and treats them as the expert on their own life. Duane focuses on building a trusting relationship and works with clients to identify practical steps forward.
Duane uses several evidence-informed approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He also draws on client-centered and motivational techniques to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
The goal is to find what fits the client and then use their strengths to create change. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward. Duane helps people talk through stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, depression, major life changes, and questions around identity and relationships.
He also supports people facing parenting challenges, career uncertainty, and issues like anger, self-esteem, or feeling isolated. In meetings he emphasizes clear communication and practical tools. Conversations may include skills practice, values-based goal-setting, and steps to reduce unhelpful patterns.
Duane encourages small, steady shifts that fit into everyday life. People who prefer a direct but compassionate style often find this helpful. Duane aims to create a calm setting where honesty is valued and progress is built on what the client already does well.
He helps people move toward goals at a pace that feels manageable.
How Duane’s approaches work online
Duane commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in his online work. ACT focuses on helping people clarify their values and take actions that align with what matters to them, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Duane will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose or combine methods that fit. This is a collaborative process where the client’s strengths and feedback guide the plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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