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.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
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.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
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.
About Dr. Launa Duffy
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
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.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
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 Therapy
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.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
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
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.