Mai Huong Nguyen, LCSW

Mai Huong Nguyen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a behavioral health specialist who brings 19 years of experience to her practice in Maine. She also works as a certified relationship coach and certified Conscious Uncoupling coach, helping individuals and couples navigate breakups, divorce, and long-standing relationship wounds. Her work focuses on the intersections between emotional health, intimate relationships, and functioning at work, supporting people whose stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, or addiction are affecting daily life and connections with others.

Nguyen centers her practice on kindness, respect, and nonjudgmental listening so clients feel seen and heard. She encourages radical acceptance of present circumstances while helping clients examine and gently challenge the beliefs and narratives that maintain pain. By exploring when and why certain patterns began, she guides clients toward rewriting their personal stories in ways that better support their values and relationships.

Her approach integrates relationship coaching with evidence-informed clinical work to address issues such as depression, parenting concerns, intimacy and sexual health, career stress, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Clients seeking healing from recent separations or past losses will find focused support for processing grief, repairing attachment wounds, and building practical skills to move forward with greater resilience and clarity.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Mai Huong Nguyen draws from client-centered therapy to create a compassionate, collaborative environment where the client’s experience guides the work. This approach emphasizes empathy, active listening, and supporting a person to find their own solutions, which can be especially helpful for relationship challenges, grief, and self-esteem concerns.

She also uses the Gottman Method for relationship-focused work, applying practical exercises and communication tools that help couples repair trust, navigate conflict, and rebuild connection after separation or betrayal. For clients processing traumatic memories, she incorporates EMDR to reduce the intensity of painful recollections and support emotional integration.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Nguyen works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for scheduling, childcare, work demands, and geographic distance. These formats make it easier to maintain consistent care, practice skills between sessions, and access a licensed professional from familiar surroundings.