About Mary
Mary Duhon is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, and supports those facing relationship strain, grief, loss, and depression. Her approach is practical and respectful, aimed at meeting each person's needs.
Mary meets people where they are and tailors sessions to individual goals. She listens for what matters most and helps set small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort. She also works with concerns that often come alongside anxiety, such as body image worries, social anxiety and phobia, isolation or loneliness, and guilt or shame. Mary helps people clarify values and rebuild routines after life changes.
Her style emphasizes sensitivity and compassion while keeping work focused and useful. Practical tools and real-life exercises are used alongside conversation to make progress between sessions. Many people come for short-term relief from overwhelming feelings and then continue to address deeper patterns like communication problems, self-love, and life purpose.
Mary supports both immediate coping and longer-term change.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. This helps people learn new ways of thinking and reacting in everyday situations.Another approach centers on building coping skills and routines to manage stress and grief. Work often includes small behavior changes, breathing or grounding exercises, and graded steps toward facing social anxiety or phobic situations. These tools can reduce overwhelm and increase a sense of control.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Mary discusses goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up before deciding which techniques to try. She adjusts methods as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the conversation feel most like an in-person visit, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and text-based messaging or live chat can work for brief check-ins or when someone prefers typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or a busy home life while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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