Mai Huong Nguyen
Compassionate clinical social worker guiding change
LCSW Maine
- Experience
- 19 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Mai
Mai Huong Nguyen draws on nearly two decades of clinical practice to provide compassionate, evidence-informed support for people navigating stress, relationship challenges, mood disorders, trauma, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She is an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker - who blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered care and trauma-focused interventions to help clients examine unhelpful beliefs, develop practical coping skills, and reshape personal narratives that no longer serve them.
Her work addresses a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, intimacy and sexual issues, parenting strains, and compassion fatigue, as well as complex topics such as trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and multicultural or identity-related stresses. She also offers specialized assistance around separation and divorce, abandonment, chronic illness and pain, and career-related distress.
Mai Huong emphasizes meeting people with kindness and respect, helping them feel seen and validated while gently exploring the origins of longstanding patterns. Clients can expect a collaborative process that incorporates mindfulness practices and, when appropriate, EMDR-informed strategies to process distressing memories alongside practical, solution-focused steps.
Her approach supports clients in rewriting limiting narratives and building skills to improve emotional regulation, relationships, and overall functioning.
Integrating evidence-based approaches into online care
Mai Huong Nguyen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical, skill-based exercises that often reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also employs Client-Centered Therapy principles, offering empathic listening and a nonjudgmental space so clients feel understood while they explore personal goals and values. When trauma memories are central to a client's distress, she may integrate EMDR-informed strategies to support processing and reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions.
Determining which approach or combination is most helpful is part of the collaborative process. The therapist works with clients to clarify goals, consider their preferences, and adjust methods as progress unfolds so the plan reflects each person’s needs and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules and varying comfort levels with remote work. These options make it possible to continue consistent care from Maine while balancing work, family, or health constraints, and they allow the therapist and client to adapt session rhythm and communication style for the most helpful therapeutic experience.
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Experience
19+ years
Licensed
Maine
Languages
English