About Ann-Marie
Ann-Marie Duncan is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 28 years of experience helping people work through stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She practices in North Carolina and focuses on creating an affirming space for people exploring identity, relationships, and life purpose. She also supports concerns like ADHD, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Ann-Marie keeps sessions straightforward and focused on real goals. She listens closely, helps people name what matters, and guides small, practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with relationship patterns, self-esteem, or navigating non-traditional partnerships. Her work draws on client-centered techniques that follow each person’s pace. She uses mindfulness to help manage strong emotions and motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change.
Solution-focused strategies are used when clients want quick, concrete actions and clearer next steps. Ann-Marie approaches conversations without judgment and with respect for each person’s background. She pays attention to family of origin issues and the impact of past trauma.
She also supports people recovering from drug and alcohol problems and those working on codependency. Sessions are aimed at building skills people can use day to day. Ann-Marie helps clients clarify values, reduce symptoms that get in the way, and set realistic goals.
Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative.
How Ann-Marie Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building a trusting working relationship. Online sessions use this approach to help people talk through what matters most and set personally meaningful goals. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety or low mood; these exercises can be practiced between sessions and reviewed during video or phone meetings.The choice of approach is collaborative. Ann-Marie will work with each person to decide whether a listening-focused, mindful, or goal-directed route fits best. She checks in about progress and adjusts methods based on your needs and preferences rather than assuming one way is right for everyone.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video lets you use visual cues and practice exercises together. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option when internet is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing homework between longer appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to use around work, family, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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