About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Murrah is a licensed professional counselor with over four decades of practice experience. He listens carefully and helps people find practical ways to change how they cope. Many clients notice new ways of thinking and behaving after a few conversations.
He has worked in a wide range of settings including hospitals, halfway houses, shelters, schools, college classrooms, church counseling, foster care homes, and outpatient clinics. Those roles gave him first-hand exposure to common struggles like addiction, grief, and relationship breakdowns.
Background and approach
This background shapes a down-to-earth way of talking about problems. Jeffrey draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand long-standing patterns and on cognitive behavioral techniques to teach concrete skills people can use right away. He also uses client-centered and solution-focused approaches to keep sessions practical and goal-directed.
Sessions tend to balance looking at past influences with action steps for today. He brings personal experience with blended family life, long-term marriage, parenting, and caregiving for an elder. Those life events inform his understanding of parenting stress, blended family conflict, and caregiver strain without replacing each person's unique story.
Clients working on infidelity recovery, process addictions, or communication problems often find this perspective helpful. Jeffrey aims to partner with people so they can regain control over daily routines and relationships. He pays attention to strengths and offers straightforward strategies for sleep, anger, anxiety, and coping with big life changes.
People who want calm, experience, and clear tools may find his approach a good fit.
Approaches that translate to online care
Jeffrey commonly combines psychodynamic therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy. Psychodynamic therapy looks at how past experiences and relationship patterns shape current feelings and behaviors, which can help when long-term patterns like family of origin issues or codependency keep recurring. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on clear, teachable skills to change thoughts and actions, which is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and addictive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try a method, and adapt based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to pick strategies that match symptoms, daily routines, and personal preferences rather than landing on a single fixed method from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit your life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual rapport, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing coaching or quick coping reminders. These options make scheduling easier and let people keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English