About Launa
Dr. Launa Duffy welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely so people can say what they mean and feel.
Dr. Duffy aims to make the first steps feel manageable for those worried about work, relationships, mood, or sleep. She uses straightforward methods drawn from evidence-based approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy.
Sessions focus on clear skills you can use between meetings - for example, tools for managing anxious thoughts, building routines that help sleep, and steps to navigate career or relationship strain.
Background and approach
Dr. Duffy holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she brings four years of hands-on experience in mental health care. Her work has included emergency-room and outpatient settings, which shaped how she responds to urgent concerns and day-to-day challenges alike.
Her background includes attention to attachment and emotion-focused approaches, so she pays attention to how relationships and early experiences shape current patterns. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, trauma, and caregiver stress by helping them identify practical next steps and coping strategies.
People meet her to talk through messy, real-life problems such as parenting strain, workplace pressure, or recurring low mood. She aims to create an open atmosphere where difficult thoughts and feelings can be discussed without judgment.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions when worrying gets in the way of what matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments. CBT often helps with anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and coping after loss by teaching concrete tools to change behavior.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and reacting. This approach can help when relationship patterns, abandonment worries, or family-of-origin issues keep repeating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss preferences, goals, and what feels most useful, then try techniques and adjust as needed in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation while phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, writing through thoughts, or keeping a steady connection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and different comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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