About Jessica
Jessica Murphy is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, bipolar mood shifts, ADHD, and major life changes.
Jessica keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical skills. She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Meetings aim to build skills for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and coping with day-to-day challenges.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in community, residential, and outpatient settings. Over two decades she has supported people with panic attacks, mood disorders, obsessive thoughts, dissociation, and histories of intimate partner violence. She has experience offering recovery skills for drug and alcohol addiction and addressing eating and body-image concerns.
Therapy with Jessica often blends problem-solving and skills training with chances to talk through past experiences. She teaches coping tools drawn from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. She also uses attachment-focused ideas to look at relational patterns and client-centered techniques to follow each person’s pace.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Jessica aims to create a calm, honest space where people can name what’s hard and try new ways of handling it. She works with people to build small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that matter, even when uncomfortable emotions are present. It can help people who feel stuck by teaching ways to notice thoughts without getting pushed around by them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then tests what works. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, obsessive thoughts, and many day-to-day difficulties because it gives concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape trust, closeness, and communication. It can be useful when intimacy, abandonment, or repeating relationship problems are central concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and situation. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when that helps. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth or being on camera is an issue. Live chat and messaging make short check-ins and skills practice easier to fit into a busy day. These formats offer flexibility to match schedules and needs while keeping the focus on practical change and consistent support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English