Mai Huong Nguyen, LCSW

Therapist in Maine

Mai Huong Nguyen is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who draws on nearly two decades of experience helping people navigate relationship strain, loss, and mental health struggles.

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License LC10201 · Maine Expires October 2027
NPI 1518949627 · national registry
Experience and languages 19+ years in practice English

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About Mai

Mai Huong Nguyen is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who draws on nearly two decades of experience helping people navigate relationship strain, loss, and mental health struggles. She focuses on meeting people with kindness and respect so they feel seen and heard. Sessions aim to reduce distress and rebuild coping skills in everyday life.

Her work often centers on relationship challenges and breakups alongside anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction.

Background and approach

She also addresses stress, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and career-related issues. Additional areas include grief, bipolar and mood concerns, multicultural issues, and compassion fatigue. Mai Huong uses approaches that emphasize listening and collaboration.

She helps people recognize the beliefs and stories that shape their behavior and gently questions those patterns. Together they look at when those beliefs began and whether they still serve the person now. In relationships work she incorporates methods that focus on improving communication, rebuilding connection, and handling conflict more constructively.

For trauma and painful memories she applies techniques aimed at reducing distress and making painful events feel less overwhelming. Her style is practical and focused. Sessions include straightforward tools, gentle reflection, and short-term skills practice.

Mai Huong supports people as they rewrite unhelpful narratives and try new ways of relating to themselves and others.

Credentials

LCSW (Maine): License LC10201 · expires October 2027
NPI: 1518949627 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

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Approaches Mai names

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Online support

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Mai Huong blends relationship-focused work with trauma-informed methods to address emotional pain and connection problems. The Gottman Method emphasizes practical communication skills and ways to reduce conflict; it can help people improve conversations, rebuild trust, and handle everyday friction more calmly. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening, acceptance, and collaboration so people feel understood while they sort out goals and next steps.

EMDR is used to reduce the intensity of painful memories by reprocessing how those memories are held in the body and mind; it can be useful for trauma or lingering painful events. Mai Huong will discuss these options with each person and help choose the best fit based on symptoms, goals, and comfort with the method. That decision is made together, and can be adjusted over time as needs change.

Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to get support without traveling. Video is useful for real-time conversation and exercises, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quicker check-ins, and messaging suits brief updates or ongoing reflection. These formats make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.

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Frequently asked

What concerns does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and addictions. Other focuses include parenting strain, sleep issues, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and ADHD.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is collaborative and client-centered, emphasizing kind listening and validation. She helps people examine beliefs and rewrite the stories that contribute to distress.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She brings 19 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker. That background includes supporting people through relationship and behavioral health challenges.

Where is she based and what credential does she hold?

She practices in Maine and holds an LCSW credential listed as ME LCSW.

What languages are offered for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the U.S. work with her?

She is not currently accepting international clients, so sessions are limited to eligible clients within her region.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does billing and getting started work?

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