Ann-Marie Duncan , LCMHC

Ann-Marie Duncan is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 28 years of clinical experience helping people navigate complex life challenges. She builds affirming, inclusive spaces where clients can explore personal growth, particularly those who identify as LGBTQ+, individuals working through relationship dynamics, and people experiencing mood-related difficulties.

Her clinical focus includes depression, anxiety, addiction recovery, sexuality exploration, and personal empowerment. With experience supporting diverse relationship structures and identities, she assists clients in cultivating self-love, clarifying life purpose, and healing from family-of-origin issues and other relational wounds. She also works with stress, grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting challenges, career matters, and coping with life transitions.

Ann-Marie draws on client-centered, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs. She emphasizes a progressive, nonjudgmental environment where people can honestly examine their emotional landscape, build resilience, and pursue meaningful change. Whether addressing trauma, addictions, relationship patterns, or the search for deeper self-understanding, she partners with clients to move toward clearer goals and sustainable growth.

Approaches and Online Care with Ann-Marie Duncan

Ann-Marie uses client-centered therapy to create a collaborative, empathetic space where the client's experience guides the work. This approach emphasizes respect, active listening, and personal agency, and it is well suited for people addressing self-esteem, relationship challenges, and life-purpose exploration.

She also incorporates mindfulness therapy, teaching practical skills to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness approaches can help with anxiety, mood management, stress, and building greater emotional regulation after trauma.

Motivational interviewing is another tool she employs to support change-oriented work, particularly around addictions, ambivalence, and making sustainable life adjustments. It focuses on strengthening motivation and aligning goals with personal values.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Ann-Marie works collaboratively with each client to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging increases flexibility and access to care. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work during transitions, and maintain momentum between in-person appointments with licensed professionals and therapists.