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Added a Remark concerning the genericity of the proposed partial solution. As well, as a clarification that the answer is partial.
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A partial answer is yes.

Given that the domain has a real analytic boundary the construction is standard. A Schwarz reflection can be performed locally near each boundary point, which together with normal analytic continuation produces the sought extension.

In general, I propose the following approach. Assume that $f(D^2) \subset g(D^2)$. The critical points of $g$ (and $f$) form a discrete set by the aforementioned similarity principle. Away from the critical points $\phi^{-1}(\mathrm{Crit}(g))$, we can write $\phi=g^{-1} \circ f$ and in this way obtain a unique continuation along small punctured discs covering the boundary of $U$. However, since $\phi$ is bounded along the boundary by assumption, the removal of singularities theorem can be applied to complete $\phi$ over the punctures.

Remark. At least in real dimension four, the assumption $f(D^2) \subset g(D^2)$ is not too severe since two unparametrised pseudo-holomorphic curves intersect in a discrete set, as was show in [McDuff; The Local Behaviour of J-holomorphic Curves in Almost Complex 4-manifolds].

(As a particular case, which however is no longer relevant given the new general formulation of the question: Every biholomorphism $\phi$ of $D^2(r)^o \subset \mathbb{C}$ which has a continuous extension to $D^2(r)$ extends to a biholomorphism of the Riemann sphere. Here we use a Schwarz reflection along $\partial D^2(r)$.)

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