About Marie
Marie Duncan is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and meets clients where they are.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and encouraging, with a mix of practical steps and emotional support. Marie focuses on everyday problems that wear people down.
She helps with coping during life changes, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, and career stress. She also supports those dealing with caregiver strain, aging or geriatric issues, and workplace problems.
Her approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and solution-focused strategies. EMDR and emotionally-focused ideas are used when they fit a person’s needs.
Sessions aim to be active and goal-oriented while respecting each person's pace. Marie uses simple techniques to reduce panic, improve communication, and rebuild self-esteem.
She works on practical habits and thinking patterns that affect daily life. People also explore forgiveness, life purpose, isolation, and social anxiety when those issues come up.
Based in South Carolina, she brings long experience and a straightforward manner to therapy conversations. The initial contact typically covers current struggles, short-term goals, and what a helpful next step would look like.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. It helps people feel heard and encourages self-directed change through reflection and support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, panic, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, current problems, and personal preferences during early sessions. Together they decide whether CBT, client-centered methods, emotionally-focused ideas, or EMDR techniques make the best sense for the moment, and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical ways to meet. Video calls let people talk face-to-face for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when someone wants support without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English