About Mai
Mai Huong Nguyen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of experience. She centers sessions on kindness, respect, and listening so people feel seen and heard. Her style is calm and practical, aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
She uses client-centered techniques to focus on each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, when appropriate, is offered for processing past trauma and abuse. Mai Huong also brings coaching skills to help clients through breakups, divorce, and the practical steps of life transitions. She supports people dealing with grief, addiction, bipolar mood changes, and compassion fatigue.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the issues she addresses alongside sleep problems and burnout. Sessions often include mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. For relationship concerns she draws on the Gottman Method to address communication and intimacy-related issues.
Work on self-esteem, anger, and career direction tends to be goal-focused and concrete. Based in Maine, Mai Huong combines clinical social work and coaching perspectives to help people rewrite the stories that keep them stuck. Conversations explore how beliefs formed and what might shift them.
The aim is steady, practical change that fits each person's life.
How these approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding where someone is starting from. In online sessions that means the therapist follows the client's lead, checks in about what feels most urgent, and adapts pacing and techniques to match each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT typically uses short exercises and homework that can be done between video or messaging sessions to test new thinking and build practical skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mai Huong will talk with clients about what feels most useful, try techniques together, and adjust the plan based on progress and preferences. That collaborative process helps decide whether more mindfulness, CBT steps, or trauma-focused work is the best next move.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for conversations about relationships and emotions. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging work well for ongoing coaching, brief updates, and quick strategies between longer sessions, offering flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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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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