About Gabrielle
Gabrielle McMurphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, depression, or big life changes. Gabrielle focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions and keeps conversations straightforward and compassionate.
Gabrielle draws on several therapy styles to meet each person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered methods to follow the person's pace and priorities. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients notice hard feelings while still moving toward what matters to them. Sessions tend to be collaborative and focused on real-world skills.
Gabrielle often teaches breathing and grounding tools for moments of high stress. She also helps people work through trauma reactions, grief, relationship distress, and challenges related to attention, mood, or addiction. Conversations aim to be clear and actionable so clients can practice between meetings.
Gabrielle has three years of clinical experience and holds licensure as LPC and LCMHC. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Therapy is available in English and for people located in North Carolina.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the platform. Gabrielle frames therapy as a team effort and works with each person to choose goals and steps that feel doable.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking small steps toward what matters to them. In online sessions that might look like identifying personal values, setting simple goals, and practicing short exercises between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Gabrielle might use CBT techniques in video or chat to help clients reframe thinking and try behavioral experiments between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities, letting the therapist follow the client’s lead and reflect what they hear back. This approach supports building trust and clarity, whether in a phone conversation or a text exchange.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gabrielle will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day constraints and then recommend methods that fit. Decisions about which techniques to try are made collaboratively and may shift as needs change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins or shorter meetings, and text-based messaging lets people share updates or ask questions between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Idaho, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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