About Duncan
Duncan Hall is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience. He works with people who are facing stress and anxiety and who want practical tools to feel steadier in daily life. He helps clients with relationship concerns, anger, self-esteem, and addiction issues.
He also supports people coping with grief, career changes, parenting strain, and major life transitions. Duncan often addresses intimacy-related issues and challenges that come from family or blended-family dynamics.
Background and approach
His approach combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies. He talks with clients about what is happening now, and then helps them test small, doable changes. Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants to build new habits or cut back on harmful behaviors.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Duncan focuses on developing coping skills, improving communication, and reducing unhelpful patterns. He aims to make progress in ways that fit each person’s life and pace.
Duncan practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English. He has experience helping people with ADHD, abandonment issues, forgiveness struggles, impulsivity, and challenges tied to infidelity or jealousy. His work is straightforward and aimed at usable results.
Online approaches for building skills and change
Duncan commonly blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage anxiety and everyday stress. Client-centered work focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping clients name their goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and uses practical exercises to reduce worry and improve mood.He also uses motivational interviewing to support people who want to change habits or make difficult decisions. That approach helps a person find their own reasons for change and build small steps toward goals. Choosing which approaches to use is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to decide what fits their needs, pace, and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people keep therapy working alongside busy schedules and changing life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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