About Heather
Heather Murphy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She works with concerns like self-esteem, career stress, relationship and family challenges, trauma, and parenting strain. Heather keeps language direct and practical to make beginning therapy feel easier for worried parents and busy adults.
She earned a Master of Social Work degree from Simmons College and a Bachelor of Arts in Art Therapy from Emmanuel College.
Background and approach
Over 13 years she has practiced in a range of mental health settings and developed experience with eating and body-image issues, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Her background also includes work around blended family issues, fertility and cancer-related concerns, and first responder stress. Heather's style is warm and interactive.
She mixes kindness, light humor, and creativity with clear, goal-focused work. Sessions tend to pair listening with concrete tools clients can try between meetings. Clinically, she draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral strategies, along with mindfulness and acceptance-based methods.
She uses these approaches to help people notice patterns, try new responses, and build practical skills for daily life. Heather aims to build trust and respect each person’s individual strengths. She encourages questions and collaborative planning so therapy fits the client’s schedule and goals.
If someone wants steady support for coping, change, or healing, she offers a supportive space to begin that work.
Practical approaches people can use online
Heather uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and daily stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choosing actions that match personal values. That approach can help with worry, grief, and making life changes.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Heather will talk with each person about goals, try different strategies, and adjust methods based on what works. Together the client and therapist decide which techniques fit day-to-day life and long-term aims.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is suited to shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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