About Mai
Mai Huong Nguyen is a licensed clinical social worker who blends somatic awareness with practical talk therapy. She brings 19 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, and life changes. Mai emphasizes kindness and clear listening in sessions so people feel seen and understood.
Her work often combines body-centered techniques with client-centered conversation. She pays attention to how emotions show up in the body and helps people notice those signals.
Background and approach
From there she uses straightforward tools to shift thoughts, habits, and responses that cause repeated pain. Mai also supports people through breakups and divorce. She notes how old stories and assumptions shape current reactions and helps clients rewrite those stories to reduce shame and isolation.
Her approach aims to make emotional patterns easier to understand and change. In sessions she uses practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused methods. She can include EMDR-style processing when trauma memories are part of the work, and she draws on relationship skills from the Gottman Method for intimacy and communication concerns.
The therapy process stays collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Mai works with a wide range of issues including addiction, parenting stress, sleep problems, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, multicultural issues, and compassion fatigue. She offers straightforward coaching for life direction and career questions alongside clinical support for grief and trauma.
How somatic work and practical therapies fit online
Mai Huong Nguyen integrates somatic awareness with client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice how feelings show up in the body and then change thoughts and habits that keep problems going. Somatic work focuses on bodily sensations and simple movement or breath practices to reduce tension and increase present-moment self-awareness. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy so people feel understood while they identify goals and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides step-by-step tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match techniques to each person's goals, comfort, and pace. Over time the plan can shift based on what helps most, with the client guiding priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice and somatic guidance. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support quick reflections, brief coaching, or continued practice between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work and family schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English