About Duy
Duy Kim Ngoc Nguyen is an AASW-accredited social worker with ten years' clinical experience. She brings a warm, down-to-earth manner and a broad interest in healing after trauma, grief and low self-esteem. She also helps people facing depression and major life changes.
Duy values a whole-person view that honours body, mind and spirit. In sessions she uses practical techniques alongside reflective conversation. She aims to help people feel steadier, clearer and more able to manage day-to-day challenges.
How Duy works
Her practice focuses on trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and coping with life transitions. Duy also works with people dealing with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She supports those facing midlife shifts, immigration-related stress and issues common to veterans and first responders.
Over ten years she has combined social work practice with therapeutic tools such as process-oriented ideas, trauma-focused cognitive behaviour strategies, Internal Family Systems concepts, mindfulness and breath work. She offers eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy for suitable clients. Duy aims for clear, simple goals in therapy.
She helps people notice patterns, try new ways of relating to difficult feelings, and build small skills that make life more manageable. Her style is collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
What Duy works with
The areas below are the ones Duy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Avoidant personality
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work online
Trauma-focused cognitive behaviour strategies break distress into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teach practical steps to reduce symptom intensity. This approach is helpful for post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression where specific skills can change daily functioning.Internal Family Systems ideas help a person map different inner parts and learn to relate to them with curiosity rather than judgement. This can be useful for shame, self-criticism and long-standing patterns such as avoidance or commitment difficulties.
Duy will work collaboratively to find the best fit for each person. She listens to your goals and adapts techniques to your needs and preferences. Deciding which approach to use is part of the work you do together rather than a one-size-fits-all decision.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper face-to-face work, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, manage energy levels and choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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