About Marie
Marie Duncan is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or difficult relationships. She speaks plainly and offers steady encouragement as people work toward clearer goals and a calmer daily life.
Marie uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients identify small, doable steps to reduce anxiety and manage stress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through patterns, practicing new ways to respond, and setting short-term goals that fit everyday life. Her approach blends client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral work and emotionally-focused methods. She also draws on trauma-focused strategies when past events are getting in the way of present functioning.
The aim is to restore more joy, connection, and confidence over time. Clients who are juggling caregiving, workplace pressure, or life transitions will find an emphasis on realistic solutions. Marie also supports people coping with grief, panic attacks, social anxiety, and issues around self-worth and intimacy.
Conversations cover both immediate coping skills and longer-term patterns that keep problems going. Marie practices in South Carolina and works in English. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and encourages people to bring their whole experience to sessions.
Her style is warm, direct, and focused on helping clients take the next step forward.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping clients find their own solutions. In online sessions this means conversations that start where the client is and move at their pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps. Online CBT often includes practicing skills between sessions, tracking progress, and trying new responses in everyday situations to reduce anxiety and panic symptoms.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. When used online it supports clearer communication, stronger emotional connection, and new ways to respond during conflict or intimacy struggles.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will adjust methods as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins, hands-on coaching, or quick support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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