AM Portrait of Amy Murray

Amy Murray, LCSW

Compassionate practical support for anxiety and stress

17 years in practice · based in North Carolina · sessions in English · online sessions

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About Amy

Amy Murray is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 17 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Amy uses practical techniques to help people manage daily pressures and painful emotions.

She writes and speaks plainly, and aims to make the first steps feel less overwhelming. Amy encourages clients to draw on their own strengths while learning new ways to cope.

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Background and approach

She blends mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral methods with solution-focused work to keep sessions practical. Breath work and gentle movement from a yoga-informed approach are used when helpful to reduce tension and support emotion regulation. Narrative work helps people make sense of hard experiences and reshape unhelpful stories about themselves.

Amy pays attention to thoughts, behaviors, bodily reactions, and relationship patterns so clients understand how they react to stress. That understanding guides a customized plan of short- and long-term strategies. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals such as easing anxiety, improving self-esteem, or handling grief and life transitions.

Amy helps people build concrete skills they can use between sessions. She keeps language straightforward and focuses on what will change day to day. People come to Amy for help with communication problems, guilt and shame, forgiveness, and issues related to women's lives.

Her approach mixes evidence-based techniques with practical tools so clients can manage distress and move forward.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Amy uses mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral methods which focus on noticing thoughts and changing unhelpful patterns. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, and low mood by teaching practical skills to interrupt stressful thought cycles.

She also uses solution-focused techniques that aim for clear, short-term goals and actionable steps. Those sessions often center on what is working now and how to build small, concrete changes into daily life.

Amy integrates yoga-informed breathing and gentle movement to help manage physical tension and support emotional regulation. These strategies can be practiced during a video session or guided for use between meetings.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit your life. Together you can adjust techniques and formats over time so the work stays relevant and useful.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let you use visual cues for breathing work and movement, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins or between-session coaching. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills across the week.
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Questions people ask

What concerns does Amy commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem issues, and coping with life changes. Other focus areas include communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, self-love, and women's issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and straightforward. She blends mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral ideas, solution-focused techniques, yoga-informed breathing and movement, and narrative approaches to create a flexible plan.
How much experience does she have?
Amy has 17 years of professional experience helping people manage anxiety, grief, depression, and related concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - licensed in North Carolina and practices from that state.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model. The subscription can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

What this therapist works with

Experience
17 years
Licensed
North Carolina
Languages
English

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