Jennifer Murray
Practical support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Murray is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people with relationship strains, family tensions, parenting challenges, and big life transitions. She works with attention to respect and compassion and adapts conversations to each person’s situation. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at making next steps clearer for worried parents and family members.
In sessions she listens first and then helps identify practical ways to reduce conflict and manage change.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is happening now and what can be tried differently at home. She pays attention to compassion fatigue and the burnout that can come from caregiving or high stress seasons. Jennifer builds a plan around each household’s needs rather than using one set approach for everyone.
That plan may include communication strategies, problem-solving steps, and ways to set boundaries that fit daily life. She emphasizes small, doable changes that can have steady impact. Her Massachusetts license as a LICSW underpins her clinical work and informs how she supports families through transitions.
She meets people where they are and helps them move toward more manageable routines and less conflict. Parents and family members often find the concrete guidance and calm presence helpful when things feel overwhelming. She describes therapy as a team effort and invites questions early in the process.
Jennifer aims to empower caregivers with tools they can use between sessions, and she adjusts the pace to match what each family needs.
How therapeutic approaches guide online family support
Jennifer uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear communication and problem solving. One approach focuses on concrete communication skills - teaching turn-taking, expressing needs calmly, and setting household boundaries to reduce repeated conflict. This helps families and partners practice different ways of talking so home interactions feel safer and clearer.Another technique emphasizes coping strategies for life changes and compassion fatigue. It offers simple routines, stress-management tools, and ways to notice caregiving burnout so parents and caregivers can protect their own energy while meeting family demands. These techniques are practical and aimed at improving day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice is revisited as progress is made and circumstances change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to get help from home or between errands. These formats offer flexibility for busy families and allow follow-up or brief check-ins when schedules are tight. The variety of formats helps people fit therapy into real life and try tools in the moment they are needed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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