About Gillian
Gillian Murray is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She practices in Florida and focuses on practical ways to cope with life changes and to build healthier self-esteem. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for busy people.
Her approach centers on working together to set clear, doable goals. Sessions are focused and geared toward real-life changes, such as handling worry, improving communication, or getting through a major life transition.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and helps clients find small steps that lead to better daily functioning. Gillian adapts her pace and style to each person's needs. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside a warm, respectful manner.
The goal is to help people understand patterns, try new behaviors, and build skills that reduce distress over time. In therapy she teaches coping tools that can be used between sessions. These include strategies for managing strong emotions, organizing thoughts, and practicing new ways of relating with others.
The emphasis is on practical skills that fit into everyday life. People come to her when anxiety or depression makes routine tasks hard, when relationships feel strained, or when a life change feels overwhelming. She helps clients break problems into manageable parts and track progress so they can see change happening.
Gillian speaks English and works with adults who want steady, experience-based support. Her credentials are LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she practices in Florida.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online work
Gillian uses well-established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on thinking patterns, behavior change, and emotion regulation. One common method she often uses helps people identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts so worry and negative moods lessen over time. This approach is useful for anxiety and depression and teaches practical ways to notice and change thinking habits.Another approach emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and building coping strategies. These sessions teach step-by-step tools for grounding, pacing reactions, and handling interpersonal stress. Those skills are aimed at helping people stay functional during stressful times and to practice calmer responses in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gillian works with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods if something is not working as expected.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls when face-to-face conversation helps, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging for quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow more frequent touchpoints between sessions, and let people use methods that suit their day-to-day routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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