About Gabrielle
Gabrielle McMurphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, addiction, and complicated life changes. She writes and talks plainly to make the first steps feel manageable. Gabrielle practices from North Carolina and offers remote sessions in English.
Her work is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on short-term skills and longer-term patterns, whichever the person needs. She listens for what matters most and then helps build concrete steps to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Gabrielle uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take action toward them.
When someone is dealing with trauma, grief, bipolar moods, or burnout, she focuses on stabilizing symptoms first. Then she helps people develop routines, communication strategies, and coping tools they can use between sessions. The work balances practical tasks and emotional processing.
With three years of clinical experience, Gabrielle aims to make therapy understandable and directly useful. She encourages small, realistic steps and checks in about progress. Her approach is steady, straightforward, and respectful of each person’s pace.
How Gabrielle’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions feel strong. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. It suits worries, mood problems, and habit change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Gabrielle will discuss different methods with each person and decide together which fits their goals and preferences. This collaborative process lets the plan change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for longer talks and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent care around busy lives and varying energy levels.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Idaho, North Carolina
- Languages
- English