Laura Duffy, LPC

Laura Duffy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with more than nine years of experience supporting people facing substance use, mental health, and co-occurring challenges. She has provided care across community agencies and hospital-based programs and has worked at several levels of treatment, including inpatient and outpatient services, Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP), Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP/APH), and medication assisted treatment using Methadone, Vivitrol, and Suboxone.

Her clinical experience includes helping clients with trauma and severe or persistent mental illness such as Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder, and various personality disorders, as well as coordinating crisis intervention for individuals in acute need. Laura’s approach to counseling is warm, non-judgmental, and person-centered - she views clients as the experts on their own lives and partners with them to set achievable goals and track progress.

She emphasizes empowerment and rebuilding self-esteem, self-worth, and self-efficacy, guided by the belief that a little compassion goes a long way. Treatment planning is collaborative and measurable, with adjustments made as progress is assessed. Laura brings extensive experience with substance use and dual-diagnosis populations and aims to help clients move toward meaningful, sustainable change.