About Mai
Mai Huong Nguyen is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship pain, and life changes. She uses a direct, compassionate style and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. With 19 years of experience, she brings steady support for trauma, grief, addiction concerns, and mood challenges like bipolar disorder.
She also works with people facing parenting strain, intimacy questions, sleep problems, career stress, and feelings of isolation.
Background and approach
Her practice includes issues relevant to LGBT clients and multicultural concerns. Her approach centers on listening and accepting what is happening now. She then helps clients gently question old beliefs and rewrite the stories that keep them stuck.
Sessions mix present-focused skills with deeper work on how past experiences shaped current patterns. Mai Huong uses several methods to match a person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness practices help people notice emotions without overreacting. For trauma, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be part of the work. Clients can expect clear, down-to-earth guidance and actionable strategies.
She also offers relationship coaching for breakup and divorce recovery, helping people process loss and plan next steps. The tone is calm, respectful, and practical as people work toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Mai Huong often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy when working online. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and emotions without reacting, useful for emotion regulation and coping with stress.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful. That approach emphasizes listening and tailoring the work to each person. Together, these methods are chosen with the client so the plan fits their goals and preferences rather than assuming one path fits everyone.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a lower-bandwidth option and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and between-session support easier. These options give practical flexibility while keeping the focus on useful skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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