Bridget Stevens-Murphy, LICSW - Therapist in Minnesota

About Bridget

Bridget Stevens-Murphy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LICSW, based in Minnesota. She brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice. Bridget listens with warmth and calm, and focuses on helping people feel understood and able to make changes that matter.

She works from a person-centered, relational stance. That means conversations are guided by the client’s priorities and experiences. Bridget uses plain language and steady support to help people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue.

Background and approach

Her background includes work both in the United States and internationally. Bridget draws on several clinical methods including attachment-informed practice, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas, and existential thinking. She explains approaches in simple terms and tailors them to each person’s situation.

Common topics she addresses range from family and parenting questions to trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, and caregiving stress. She also helps with career transitions, self-esteem, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. Her style is steady and collaborative rather than prescriptive.

In sessions Bridget helps clients name patterns and try practical steps that fit their life. She centers the relationship in therapy and works to build trust so people can experiment with new ways of thinking and relating. The goal is clearer understanding and choices that feel more livable.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships. It helps people notice how early bonds shape expectations and reactions in current relationships and can be useful for parenting questions, adoption and foster care concerns, and family tension. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact; it offers concrete skills to manage anxiety, depression, and stress and to change unhelpful habits.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Bridget will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try first. Therapy can be adjusted over time based on how things are going and what feels most useful.

Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy schedules or those living at a distance. These formats make it easier to fit short check-ins or longer sessions into daily life and allow people to access licensed professionals from Minnesota while working through family, parenting, and personal challenges.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Bridget commonly address?

She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting matters, compassion fatigue, and related challenges such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and blended family stresses.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Bridget practices in a person-centered, relational way and uses attachment-based, cognitive behavioral, emotionally-focused, and existential ideas as tools to help people understand patterns and try new approaches.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has eight years of professional experience and has worked in both domestic and international settings.

What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?

She holds a LICSW credential and is licensed in Minnesota as MN LICSW 20016.

In which languages can sessions be conducted?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available for online work?

Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What should someone do to begin therapy here?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

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Experience: 8 years
Licensed: Minnesota
Languages: English

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