About Joseph
Joseph Murphy is a licensed professional counselor with more than 20 years of experience in Tennessee. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, anger, mood challenges, and phobias. He aims to offer respectful, compassionate care that fits each person's values and goals.
He draws mainly from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. He also uses dialectical behavior skills and mindfulness practices to manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are added when someone needs clearer steps and focus. Sessions are conversational and practical. He listens first, then helps set small, doable goals.
He emphasizes skills people can use between sessions for sleep, eating, panic, or workplace stress. Joseph notes his Christian worldview guides how he interacts, though he does not label his work as faith-only counseling. He stays patient with people facing slow change and encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
People looking for help with caregiving strain, obsessive behaviors, panic attacks, seasonal mood shifts, or social anxiety will find direct, skills-based work. He supports people throughout grief, trauma responses, and major life transitions while helping them build routines and coping strategies.
Practical approaches for online care
Joseph uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; this method works well for anxiety, panic, phobias, and sleep or eating problems. He also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for people who get overwhelmed by strong feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He will listen to your main concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest techniques and try them out together. If something does not fit, the plan is adjusted so work feels useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and practicing skills together. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and tips between sessions. These options make it easier to access consistent care while fitting sessions into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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