Jessica Murphy, LPC

Jessica Murphy is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience helping people through major life changes. She focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, grief, eating concerns, ADHD, and coping with midlife transitions. Her approach aims to make therapy feel understandable and usable day to day.

She draws on several well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioral work to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and dialectical skills for managing strong emotions. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and abandonment concerns. Client-centered listening is part of how she builds a working relationship with each person.

Jessica has worked in community, residential, and outpatient settings and has experience with people facing panic attacks, mood disorders, OCD, psychosis, PTSD, and past intimate partner violence. She also has a background supporting recovery from substance use and related addictions. Her years in practice have included helping people build coping skills and relapse prevention strategies.

In sessions she aims to balance practical skills with chances to reflect on past and present patterns. She offers concrete tools for stress reduction and communication alongside space to process grief, trauma, or feelings of emptiness. The goal is to strengthen coping and increase daily functioning.

To begin, she asks people to share what feels most pressing and works collaboratively to set goals. Sessions are intended to be a mix of skill-building, problem solving, and reflective conversation tailored to each person.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and learning practical ways to live in line with those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can help people facing life transitions and chronic stress by shifting attention toward meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change thought and behavior patterns that maintain anxiety or depression, and it often involves homework like thought records or behavior experiments. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections, which can be useful for intimacy and abandonment concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean blending ACT skills, CBT exercises, and attachment-focused conversation rather than following a single method.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, allow for focused skill practice between meetings, or permit shorter check-ins when a full session is not needed. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises such as behavioral experiments, emotion regulation skills, and values-based planning to work over distance, and this therapist uses these kinds of tools to help people manage stress, cravings, strong emotions, and major life changes.