Jessica Murphy
Compassionate practical support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jessica
Jessica Murphy is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who focuses on family and parenting related concerns among a wide range of issues. She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy problems, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, mood disorders, and life changes. Jessica uses clear, practical methods aimed at helping people manage symptoms and build day-to-day skills.
Her style is straightforward and supportive. Sessions emphasize safety and honest conversation.
Background and approach
She offers concrete tools and pacing that fit each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. Jessica draws on about 20 years of professional experience in community, residential, and outpatient settings. She has worked with people who faced panic, mood disorders, ADHD, PTSD, eating concerns, and intimate partner violence.
That background informs how she helps clients navigate complex histories and overlapping problems. Therapeutic methods Jessica commonly uses include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, and Client-Centered Therapy. She mixes techniques to match goals like emotion regulation, relapse prevention, communication improvement, or coping with grief.
In sessions she focuses on practical skills and personal values. Conversations might include identifying patterns, practicing new responses, and building routines that reduce stress. The aim is to leave people with tools they can use between meetings and a clearer plan for moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to tolerate difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, or problematic eating patterns. It typically involves practical exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape trust and communication, which can help with intimacy issues and codependency.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, review history, and try methods that match your needs. Changes are made collaboratively, and techniques can be mixed if that seems helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to schedule meetings, follow up between sessions, and use skills in real time. For many people the variety of contact methods makes it simpler to stay consistent with therapy while managing everyday responsibilities.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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