Dr. Launa Duffy
Calm, practical help for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Launa
Dr. Launa Duffy is a Maryland-licensed counselor who focuses on practical help for everyday problems. She responds calmly to stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, and life changes.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for people who need clear steps and support. She uses common therapies in flexible ways, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered conversation to help clients notice patterns and try new behaviors. She also incorporates elements of attachment work to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple tools, small experiments to try between meetings, and focused discussion about next steps. Dr. Duffy earned medical and counseling credentials, listed as MD and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and has about four years of professional experience.
She has practiced in settings that included emergency care and outpatient clinics, which shaped her approach to assessment and treatment planning. She works with a wide range of concerns such as depression, bipolar conditions, addictions, grief, and compassion fatigue. Her style is direct but supportive.
She aims to build an open space where people can talk without judgment and plan realistic changes. She recognizes the role faith and spirituality can play and is willing to include those topics when they matter to a client. For practical matters she offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging and conducts work in English from Maryland.
Her practice uses a subscription format that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without letting them control actions. It focuses on values and small, practical steps that move someone toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and uses short exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships affect reactions and trust, and it can help with parenting, relationship patterns, and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan as progress or new needs appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people keep therapy going around work, school, or parenting demands. Licensed professionals can guide exercises, share handouts, and set small between-session tasks through these formats to keep work moving forward.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
Talk to Launa
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point