About Jonathan
Jonathan 'Riley' Murdock offers a calm, practical presence for people facing anxiety, stress, phobias, grief, addiction, and other life challenges. He aims to be fully in the client’s corner and to make change feel possible through small, steady steps. Riley uses clear language, visual metaphors, and straightforward coaching to help people move forward.
Riley draws on four years as a licensed clinical social worker, and he frames work around strengths rather than deficits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding why certain patterns persist and on breaking them down into manageable actions. He often uses simple comparisons and images so clients can see progress and remember ideas later. He blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing to help clients set goals and follow through.
Mindfulness and narrative methods are also part of his approach when they fit the person's needs. This mix supports coping with trauma, depression, sleep problems, relationship tension, and addictions. Riley describes change as a gradual process of small increases in challenge and recovery time.
He pays attention to pacing so people do not feel overwhelmed. Clients who like visual explanations, practical steps, and occasional metaphor often find his style helpful. Riley works with people on a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, anger, parenting strain, bipolar symptoms, attachment and abandonment issues, chronic illness, and body image.
He provides sessions in English and accepts international clients while practicing from Idaho.
Approaches and Online Options for Practical Change
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s strengths and priorities, with the therapist listening closely and following the client’s lead to set goals and make decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, then breaks them into specific steps to change how a person reacts and feels. Motivational interviewing supports people who are unsure about change, helping them clarify their own reasons and build momentum toward action.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to find methods that fit their goals, needs, and pace. That can mean starting with motivating conversations, adding behavioral experiments from CBT, or leaning into client-centered listening and problem solving as trust grows.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different lives and schedules. Video calls let people connect face to face when visual cues help, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can fit brief updates, homework, or those who prefer typing. These options make it easier to keep momentum while fitting therapy into work, caregiving, or travel.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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