About Bridget
Bridget Stevens-Murphy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Minnesota who centers therapy on relationships and strengths. She aims to create a calm, approachable space where clients can talk through stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Bridget writes and speaks plainly so people feel understood and heard from the start.
She draws from attachment-based and client-centered ideas to shape how she works. Conversations focus on understanding patterns in relationships and personal history.
Background and approach
Bridget uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches when helpful to change upsetting thoughts and habits. Bridget has eight years of clinical experience and has worked in both domestic and international settings. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care concerns, fertility and parenting issues, caregiver stress, and first responder challenges.
She also helps with intimacy and relationship struggles, communication problems, and feelings of emptiness or abandonment. Sessions often blend reflective conversation with hands-on strategies for coping. Bridget encourages exploration of values, meaning, and day-to-day habits that affect mood and connection.
She emphasizes clients' own expertise about their lives while offering an outside perspective. Practical options include messaging, live chat, phone, and video work. Bridget supports people navigating career stress, compassion fatigue, family of origin concerns, and recovery from abuse.
Her goal is to help people build more enlivening and manageable lives.
How relational and cognitive approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online conversations can identify patterns that cause anxiety or mistrust and help people try new ways of relating.Client-centered therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental conversation where the person sets the pace and topics. This approach helps people feel heard and become clearer about their own goals and values in therapy.
Cognitive behavioral techniques give practical steps to test and change thoughts and actions that increase anxiety or depression. Online sessions often mix discussion with brief exercises or behavioral experiments to try between meetings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Bridget collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. She adjusts the plan as needs change so therapy stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful when nonverbal cues matter, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when schedules shift.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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