Duane Drew
Practical support for family and life transitions
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Duane
Duane Drew is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside individual issues. He draws on 14 years of experience to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, and changes in relationships. Duane keeps sessions straightforward and practical so parents can use skills between meetings.
He works in New Hampshire and holds the LCMHC credential, NH LCMHC 2460. Duane uses clear, goal-oriented methods to address problems like low self-esteem, intimacy-related struggles, and trauma.
Background and approach
He offers tools to manage intense emotions, improve communication, and cope with life transitions such as separation or divorce. In sessions he helps clients spot unhelpful patterns and practice small changes that add up over time. He also supports people facing complex or overlapping issues, including codependency, attachment concerns, dissociation, and disruptive mood symptoms.
Duane can talk through concerns connected to alternative sexual cultures, commitment worries, and control or dependency tendencies. His work includes attention to domestic violence and recovery from abuse when that is part of a person’s story. Duane blends client-centered listening with practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused work, plus trauma-focused techniques when relevant.
He encourages collaboration and tailors each plan to what a person needs right now. Many clients leave with clear next steps and skills they can practice at home. Sessions are offered in English and arranged around clients’ schedules.
The overall aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, helping people build more stable relationships and healthier day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Duane uses client-centered therapy to create space for people to share their concerns and feel heard. This approach focuses on empathetic listening and meeting a person where they are, which can help with relationship and parenting stresses.He also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage depressive symptoms, and change unhelpful habits that get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the problem, and adjust plans based on what works and what feels right for the client.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family life and busy days, while still allowing regular contact and ongoing skill practice. The focus is on flexibility and making therapy fit into real routines so people can use what they learn at home.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
Next step
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