Jessica Murphy, LPC

Jessica Murphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience in Arizona. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, eating or body-image struggles, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and major life changes.

Jessica uses a practical and straightforward style. She aims to create a space that feels calm but active enough to encourage honest talk. Sessions focus on parsing daily habits and thought patterns that get in the way. She offers skills and strategies people can try between sessions.

Her approach mixes methods to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps spot and change unhelpful thoughts. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches guide work on relationship patterns and self-acceptance.

Jessica has worked in community, residential, and outpatient settings and has experience supporting people with addiction and recovery skills. Her background includes treating people with panic attacks, obsessive behaviors, ADHD, PTSD, and mood disorders.

Her goal is to help people identify small, doable changes in thinking and daily habits. She encourages practicing new skills outside sessions to build confidence and reduce distress. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to notice painful thoughts without fighting them and to choose actions that match their values. It can help when worry or negative self-talk makes daily life feel narrow. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and lift mood. It is useful for stress, panic, and changing unhelpful routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships influence current patterns and supports changing how people relate to others and themselves.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try first, and adjusts based on what helps most. That means experiments, skill practice, and checking in about whether an approach feels useful or needs changing.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also supports using worksheets and in-session exercises that relate directly to daily habits and thinking patterns. Ask about available session options when scheduling to match the format to practical needs and preferences.