About Jessica
Jessica Murphy is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, relationship struggles, grief, and other difficult life changes. Jessica aims for a calm, straightforward approach that feels manageable for someone under pressure.
Her sessions focus on practical skills and clear goals. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills and emotion regulation.
Background and approach
She also brings attachment-informed ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape their current patterns. Jessica has worked across community, residential, and outpatient settings. That background informs how she supports people facing addiction, trauma, panic attacks, mood shifts, and eating or body-image concerns.
She has experience helping those affected by intimate partner violence and codependency, and in providing recovery skills for substance use challenges. In the room she strives to make space for honest self-reflection while keeping things practical. Sessions include skill practice, problem-solving, and time to talk through painful events when needed.
She aims to help people reduce distress and build day-to-day strategies that fit their lives. Jessica welcomes conversations about whether her style fits a person’s needs. She helps people map out achievable steps and offers approaches that can be adapted as progress is made.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and decisions about meaningful life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practice and skill-building; it often helps with panic, worry, mood shifts, and eating-related concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and intimacy, and it helps people identify and shift repeating patterns in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust as progress is made so work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual interaction helps build rapport and practice skills. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick skill refreshers, ongoing coaching, or check-ins between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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