About Duncan
Duncan Hall is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people face anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and self-esteem struggles. He works directly and compassionately, offering practical steps people can use right away. His approach aims to make therapy feel purposeful and manageable for busy lives.
He often helps people who are coping with ADHD-related challenges, impulsivity, and difficulty concentrating. He also supports those dealing with grief, addiction concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, steady shifts that add up over time. Duncan combines client-centered conversations with structured problem-solving. He uses techniques that help people spot unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors between sessions.
Clients leave with concrete strategies for handling stress and relationship conflicts. Over nearly three decades Duncan has worked with people navigating career transitions, parenting pressures, and intimacy issues. He pays attention to communication problems, control issues, and forgiveness when these come up.
He aims to tailor each plan to the person’s daily reality and responsibilities. His style is straightforward and respectful. He listens without judgment and keeps the focus on what the client wants to change.
For people who prefer action-oriented work, he blends coaching elements with therapy to support real-world progress.
Practical therapies you can use online
Duncan combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience so goals come from what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thought and behavior patterns with specific exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Duncan will talk with each person about their goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support quick problem-solving, coaching-style prompts, and ongoing tracking between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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