About Jonathan
Jonathan 'Riley' Murdock greets people with a straightforward, hopeful approach. He aims to be in the client’s corner while they sort through stress, anxiety, grief, or life shifts. He keeps language simple and focuses on small, manageable steps to help people move forward.
Riley draws on Client-Centered Therapy to listen without judgment and meet each person where they are. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that keep people stuck and Mindfulness Therapy to help manage intense moments.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing is part of his toolbox to help people choose and act on practical changes. He frames change as muscle-building - small, repeated efforts that add up. Sessions often center on concrete strategies for coping with sleep problems, relationship strain, addictive behaviors, or persistent low mood.
He favors visual metaphors and clear examples to make ideas easy to recall between visits. With four years as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Riley brings both lived experience and clinical work to sessions. He speaks plainly about setbacks and recovery, acknowledging that progress can be messy and non-linear.
That perspective helps people stay steady when things feel overwhelming. Riley works from Idaho and offers sessions in English, including options accessible to international clients. He frames therapy as a collaborative process focused on realistic, baby-step goals that fit each person’s life and capacity.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jonathan combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in short, practical ways. Client-Centered Therapy means he listens closely and follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and creates small, concrete experiments to test new ways of coping.He also uses Mindfulness Therapy to bring attention to the present moment and reduce reactivity. That can be especially helpful for anxiety, sleep problems, and getting through intense memories or urges. Together these approaches aim to make change feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He treats the choice of methods as a collaboration, adjusting techniques based on a person’s goals, rhythm, and what actually works in practice. Clients set small goals and he helps track progress and tweak strategies over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for longer therapy work and visual tools; phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework support, or maintaining momentum between longer sessions. These options give practical flexibility so people can fit therapy into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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