About Mai
Mai Huong Nguyen is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who centers her practice on kindness and listening. She emphasizes meeting people where they are and helping them feel seen and understood during difficult times. She blends a client-centered stance with focused tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
That means sessions often begin by identifying what is most upsetting now, then using practical steps to shift thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck.
Background and approach
EMDR is used at times for trauma and painful memories, and Gottman-informed ideas guide conversations about relationship patterns and repair. With 19 years of experience, she has worked with a wide range of concerns. These include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and relationship issues.
She also supports people facing life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to identity and multicultural concerns. Her style is gentle and direct. She encourages people to notice the beliefs that drive their reactions, then experiments with new ways of thinking and relating.
Sessions mix talking, practical exercises, and simple mindfulness practices that can be used between meetings. Mai practices from Maine and offers sessions in English. She provides therapy for everyday struggles and deeper wounds, aiming to help people build clearer choices and kinder self-talk over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and meeting each person where they are. In practice this means the therapist prioritizes your concerns and follows your pace, helping you feel understood before moving into change work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses simple, practical exercises to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It is often useful for anxiety, mood struggles, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method some people use to process traumatic memories. When appropriate, the therapist can guide gentle reprocessing work to reduce the intensity of painful memories and their everyday effects.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with you about goals, try approaches that fit your needs, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative testing helps identify which techniques feel most useful for you.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or short coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or medical schedules and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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