About Jessica
Jessica Murphy is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, depression, phobias, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She works with people facing addiction, grief, eating and body-image struggles, bipolar mood issues, anger, and life changes. Jessica aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people can use skills between meetings.
Jessica leans on approaches that are hands-on and focused on the person's goals.
Background and approach
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward them. Her style is warm and client-centered.
She listens first, then helps set small, realistic goals. Sessions may include skill practice, guided conversation, and gradual exposure to feared situations when appropriate. Jessica's background includes many treatment settings across Arizona, including community, residential, and outpatient programs.
That experience includes working with people who have faced trauma, intimate partner violence, substance use concerns, and complex mood or anxiety symptoms. She aims to create a space that is calm but active enough to support self-exploration and growth. Jessica shares practical strategies for stress reduction, coping with intense emotions, and rebuilding routines after difficult life events.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can help with anxiety, phobias, and decisions about relationships and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on finding and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework, which suits problems like anxiety, mood symptoms, and phobias. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and shift how they relate to others and themselves.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, needs, and preferences, then recommend techniques to try. They adjust methods over time based on what is helpful and what the client wants to work on.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for more interactive skill work and exposure practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, skill reminders, or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using familiar therapeutic tools.
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What this therapist 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
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