Marie Duncan, LMFT

Marie Duncan is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on restoring energy and purpose when relationships or caregiving demands feel overwhelming. Her approach is warm and direct, with a mix of practical tools and emotional support.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's pace, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship hurt needs attention. EMDR is part of her toolkit for trauma-related symptoms, and solution-focused techniques help set clear, short-term goals.

Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. Marie aims to make room for both humor and tears while people work through difficult feelings. She pays attention to practical changes that reduce daily stress and improve relationships and caregiving roles.

Marie has spent much of her career helping people manage workplace strain, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress. She also supports those dealing with panic attacks, social anxiety, intimacy issues, and life purpose questions. Her long experience includes work with aging and geriatric issues and women's concerns.

Marie is licensed in South Carolina as an LMFT. She provides services in English and works with people by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Marie blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and relationship patterns. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. EFT helps people name emotions and change interaction patterns that cause distance or hurt in close relationships.

She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person's lead and build a trusting connection. That collaborative stance means she and the client decide together which approach feels most useful based on current goals and needs. Finding the right fit is part of the work and may shift over time as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, frequent touchpoints and can fit into busy days or caregiving routines. These options help people keep therapy going when schedules or location would otherwise get in the way.