LPC, 5 years of experience
Hello! I am a licensed counselor in Maryland with a NCC national certification, board certified telemental health counselor, and certified clinical trauma professional designation. I have had ten plus years in graduate education in counseling and approximately 5 in diverse clinical settings. I work with clients in managing their anxieties, exploring attachment for healthier relationships now, and career counseling for all ages and stages. I feel led and called to this job and enjoy the gentle guidance this job offers my clients.
In the first session, it is a calm environment of introductions. You are free to share your story as much as you feel comfortable with in the first session. Wrapping up the first session you will be plenty pf opportunity to ask questions and have thorough explanations. Along with being provided with my clinical recommendations on the direction of therapy.
My greatest strengths as a counselor is my empathy and creating a safe and welcome environment for clients. I am also deeply analytical and can provide a deep reflection to encourage growth. If you desire a compassionate counselor who can also be a strong voice of encouragement, I believe I am that voice.
I am well poised to help a variety of clients in transitional times in their lives. While trauma and anxiety are the focus of my extended experience and training I can utilize a number of evidenced based treatments to help a variety of clients. That being said I am quite comfortable in treating a number of anxiety and stress produced diagnoses.
This evidenced based therapy for anxiety and anxiety like diagnosis. This treatment is used to explore core beliefs and how anxieties could be negatively impacting you past, present, and future. We identify your schemas and negative self talk that may come through with detrimental core beliefs. Then we challenge those thoughts only in light of who you see yourself or like to see yourself as. Finally we begin the journey of challenging those negative thoughts.
This evidenced based treatment is used for a number of diagnoses. This helps ground you in who you know yourself to be and what is your most powerful self. Using it to commit to change in your life that is impactful.
Schema is a tool to process generational trauma and fractured pasts in therapy. This tool helps patients process their past and possible healing in the future.
IFS is an evidenced based treatment used to address trauma. This counselor uses this tool to help those with trauma, grief, and debilitating schemas to process feelings and identify possible healing pathways.
Narrative therapy is a. tool for patient's to reframe and gain back the narrative of their life. Therapy technique for allowing a client's story to become less fractured and empowering them into the next phase of their life.
10 ratings with written reviews
May 10, 2025
Dr. Launa Duffy has helped me greatly and I am so grateful to have her help. She is able to recognize the things that I describe to her and gives me great solutions in a gentle way to help me make the changes I want to make.
May 10, 2025
Dr. Duffy is kind-hearted and a joy to work with. My husband and I look forward to our sessions with her and always leave them feeling more empowered and positive. She's given us great tools to use as we learn to communicate again post-baby. She's helpful and encouraging, and always approaches heavy topics with grace. Thank you for all you've assisted us with so far, Dr. Duffy!
May 5, 2025
Thank you for helping me in such an open and honest way.