Sarah DuVall Murray, LCSW - Therapist in New Jersey

About Sarah

Sarah DuVall Murray is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in New Jersey. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions. Sarah focuses on practical ways to manage stress, mood difficulties, and challenging life changes.

Her style is direct and compassionate, with attention to each person’s values and choices. She aims to make the room a place to talk through what feels overwhelming. Sarah combines clear skills training with chances to reflect on deeper patterns.

Background and approach

She often shares articles or books when they can help a client use new tools between sessions. Her training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and psychodynamic ideas. She has worked in outpatient and inpatient settings, psychiatric emergency services, and community mental health programs.

Those roles shaped her comfort with both short-term coping strategies and longer-term personal work. In sessions she helps people tolerate difficult feelings, build new coping steps, and make small, sustainable changes. She explains interventions plainly and collaborates on goals.

The approach balances concrete skill practice with understanding where problems come from. Sarah earned a Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Her license is LCSW in New Jersey.

She conducts work in English and provides therapy through several online formats.

Therapeutic approaches suited to online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It teaches specific tools for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving how a person manages intense feelings and relationships. Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat over time and helps bring those patterns into awareness to create change.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Clients and therapist work together to select skills-based methods or deeper exploratory work as needs and preferences become clearer.

Online therapy with this clinician uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit into busy lives. These options make it easier to attend sessions from home or work and to use brief check-ins when needed. The flexible formats support steady progress whether the focus is learning new coping skills or exploring longer-term patterns.

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, mood disorders including bipolar, and related issues.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

Her approach blends clear skills teaching with reflective work. Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical steps alongside exploring patterns behind difficulties.

What is her clinical background?

She has 12 years of experience in outpatient and inpatient care, psychiatric emergency services, and community mental health with seriously mentally ill adults.

What are her credentials and location?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in New Jersey with license number NJ LCSW 44SC05465800.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English only.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are fees and billing handled?

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

How do I begin working together?

Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.

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Experience: 12 years
Licensed: New Jersey
Languages: English

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