Erin Murphy
Flexible, person-centered counseling in Kentucky
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Erin
Erin Murphy is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky who uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other evidence-based methods. She offers straightforward, person-centered sessions that let clients set the pace and focus. Erin keeps the conversation practical and grounded, helping people understand patterns and try small changes that matter day to day.
Erin trained in counseling psychology at the University of Kentucky and earned multiple graduate degrees, including a Master of Science in Education and an Education Specialist degree.
Background and approach
She also holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the same university. These studies shape a thoughtful, reflective approach to care. Her work blends ACT with cognitive and behavioral skills, attachment-informed thinking, and client-centered listening.
She aims to tailor techniques to each person’s needs, strengths, and goals rather than following a single script. Sessions often include psychoeducation and practice of skills to manage stress and mood and improve daily functioning. Erin has about 10 years of experience and has focused recent training on neurodiversity and inclusive practice.
She also has certifications and past trainings related to ADHD and autism, anxiety treatment, and telemental health that inform her approach. She describes her practice as trauma-informed and affirming. Sessions are offered through phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Scheduling and the first steps begin through the site’s Start Therapy process, where a short questionnaire and scheduling options connect people to her availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Erin commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and move toward chosen values despite them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions because it teaches practical ways to stay present and take value-guided action.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a skills-based approach that looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors together. CBT offers concrete strategies for managing symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems by practicing specific coping techniques.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit their needs and goals, and she adapts tools rather than insisting on one single model. Clients have a say in what is tried and how progress is measured.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and routines. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow repeat practice between meetings, and keep continuity when travel or scheduling conflicts arise. Licensed professionals can use these options to provide consistent, regular support tailored to each person’s life and preferences.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
Next step
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