About Angela
Angela Murphy is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and issues like grief or low self-esteem. She works with concerns related to addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Angela brings a calm, practical presence and focuses on what a person needs right now.
She uses a person-centered style that centers the client’s experience and values.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are included when changing unhelpful thinking and behavior is useful. Trauma-focused work is offered for those dealing with past hurts and ongoing effects of abuse. Angela trained in research methods and has a background exploring women’s roles, adoption and foster care, and attachment patterns.
Her clinical path spans six years and she is licensed as a counselor in Idaho, listed as LPC. That experience informs how she notices patterns that come from family of origin, culture, or past trauma. In sessions she listens first and helps people develop new coping skills with self-compassion.
She aims to build practical skills for communication, boundaries, and emotional regulation. The work often includes building how someone relates to themselves as well as to others. Angela describes her approach as collaborative and adaptive.
She combines relational listening with concrete techniques so people can try things between sessions. Her focus includes multicultural concerns, domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, and issues that affect women specifically.
Approaches for online care and trauma work
Angela uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes what the client brings to the room and listens for goals and values before suggesting steps. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes the direction of therapy around their priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and for managing stress with concrete skills and short exercises.
Trauma-focused therapy addresses the effects of past abuse or ongoing traumatic stress. Work in this area looks at how past experiences shape current coping, and it focuses on building new skills and self-compassion to reduce distress over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then adapt methods over time so therapy fits the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins, homework review, or added support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English