About Launa
Dr. Launa Duffy helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She is Dr.
Launa Duffy, MD, LCPC, and she focuses on straightforward support for common struggles like sleep problems, low self-esteem, workplace stress, and relationship or parenting strain. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at clearing immediate obstacles so people can take the next step. She draws on several therapy approaches to match a person’s needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people in noticing difficult emotions while taking action that matches their values. Attachment-Based techniques look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
Her background includes work across emergency rooms and outpatient clinics. She describes about four years of hands-on experience in clinical settings. That mix of settings means she is used to both short-term crisis work and longer conversations about ongoing concerns.
Sessions often include practical tools and simple homework to try between meetings. She aims to build a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk openly and experiment with new ways of coping. Conversations cover concrete goals like better sleep, addiction recovery steps, or managing mood swings.
Dr. Duffy works with issues such as trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and substance concerns, and also supports people dealing with adoption or attachment questions. She practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and testing new ways of responding, which often helps with sleep, mood, and anxiety symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people create safer ways of relating to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging can be used for short check-ins, reflections, or when messaging fits a person's routine better. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English