Launa Duffy
Hello! I am a licensed counselor in Maryland, holding credentials as a National Certified Counselor (NCC), Board Certified-Telemental Health Provider (BC-TMH), and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). With a robust academic background—including over ten years of graduate education culminating in my Ph.D. and M.A. in Professional Counseling, alongside years of diverse clinical experience in settings such as TidalHealth, and my current work with Grow Healthcare Group, I bring a deeply grounded, comprehensive perspective to the therapeutic room. My clinical practice centers on helping clients navigate and manage anxiety, explore attachment styles to build healthier and more fulfilling relationships, and receive guidance through career transitions across all ages and stages of life. I feel genuinely called to this work, and I find profound fulfillment in offering the gentle, steady guidance that empowers my clients to find clarity, healing, and personal growth.
I work with clients in managing their anxieties, exploring attachment for healthier relationships now, and career counseling for all ages and stages.
First session
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.
Strengths
My greatest strengths as a counselor lie at the intersection of deep compassion and incisive insight. I pride myself on cultivating a warm, unconditionally safe, and welcoming environment where clients immediately feel heard, valued, and understood without judgment. Beyond creating this secure foundation, I bring a strong analytical perspective to our sessions. I am able to look beneath the surface, connect patterns, and offer deep, thoughtful reflections that gently challenge you to see things from new angles and encourage meaningful personal growth. If you are looking for a clinician who balances genuine empathy and warmth with a strong, encouraging voice to help guide you toward lasting change, I believe I can be that steady partner for you.
Ideal clients
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.
Ongoing work together
Collaborative Focus: Emphasizes a partnership model, reassuring the client that the therapeutic direction is guided together. Flexibility and Pacing: Highlights that the work adapts to their evolving needs, which helps reduce performance anxiety about therapy. Goal-Oriented: Frames the sessions around tangible progress and skill-building while maintaining a supportive environment.
Treatment methods
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.
Location
Virtual sessions