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Jessica  Murphy

Jessica Murphy, LPC

Therapist in Arizona

Compassionate counselor focused on practical growth

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20 years of experience listed

LPC professional credentials

English languages

  • Skill building
  • Trauma informed
  • Recovery support

About Jessica

Jessica Murphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, and concerns about self esteem. Her work also covers grief, eating and body image concerns, anger, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and major life changes.

Jessica adapts her style to each person. She aims to create a space that feels safe but lively enough for honest conversation. Sessions focus on building practical skills, learning coping strategies, and talking through past or current experiences as they come up.

Her background includes many years in community, residential, and outpatient settings. That experience shapes a flexible approach that blends talk therapy with skill teaching. Jessica has worked with people who have faced panic attacks, mood disorders, obsessive thoughts, dissociation, and PTSD as well as those with histories of intimate partner violence and codependency.

She draws on several clinical methods to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions. Attachment-based ideas are used when relationships and early patterns matter.

Jessica also has experience supporting recovery from substance use and has provided recovery skills in treatment settings. Her aim is to help people feel stronger and better able to manage daily life while they work toward their goals.

How chosen approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them. It can help when worry, low mood, or avoidance get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and introduces simple experiments to try different behaviors and notice what changes. This approach is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to patterns in close relationships and early life that shape current reactions. It can be useful when relationship problems, abandonment feelings, or attachment wounds are central concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, history, and what feels most helpful. Sessions may draw from more than one approach and evolve as needs change.

Please confirm current session options before booking so you know which online formats are offered at the time. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, save travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people join from whatever quiet setting they can arrange. Licensed professionals can use these approaches effectively over distance while helping clients learn skills and process difficult experiences.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesDepression

Also works with

AddictionsFamily conflictsGriefEating disordersAnger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderCoping with life changesADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBody imageCo-morbidityCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessMidlife crisisMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Credentials

Arizona

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Jessica commonly help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, grief, eating concerns, anger, self esteem and related problems.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Jessica blends practical skills teaching with open conversation. She aims for a safe but lively space where people can process past and present experiences.

What is her professional background?

She has 20 years of experience in community, residential, and outpatient settings and has worked with people facing panic attacks, mood disorders, PTSD, dissociation, and more.

What credentials and region are on file?

Jessica holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential (LPC) and practices in Arizona.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Please confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats the therapist is offering at the time.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin if I want to work together?

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