About Mai
Mai Huong Nguyen is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 19 years of experience to her practice in Maine. She combines a calm, respectful presence with practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, and other life challenges. Sessions aim to make clients feel seen and heard while exploring realistic ways to feel better day to day.
Her style begins with client-centered care that honors each person’s story.
How Mai works
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. For traumatic memories, she includes EMDR to reduce the intensity of painful images and reactions when appropriate. Many people seek her help for relationship and intimacy concerns, including healing from breakups or divorce.
She also supports those facing career stress, parenting strain, sleep problems, addiction concerns, and mood disorders. Additional interests include attachment wounds, family-of-origin issues, chronic illness, and questions about life purpose. Mai Huong emphasizes gentle acceptance first, then works with clients to question long-held beliefs that no longer serve them.
Therapy often involves rewriting personal narratives and practicing new behaviors between sessions. Her coaching background informs goal-focused work alongside therapeutic care. She offers sessions in English through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People who want to start can use the site’s matching process to schedule with her according to availability.
Mai lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Mai works with
The areas below are the ones Mai selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's lead and creating a respectful space where people feel heard. It helps when someone needs to sort out feelings, make sense of their story, and decide what they want to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to reduce the emotional charge of traumatic memories by guiding attention while recalling difficult moments; it can help people feel less triggered by those memories.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Decisions are revisited as progress happens so the plan can change when needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is low, chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep care consistent over time.
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