About Murphy
Murphy Hall is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who offers therapy to adults from Indiana. She focuses on helping people who are coping with anxiety, stress, trauma, and questions about sexual and gender identity. Murphy aims to create an affirming space where clients feel respected and understood as they talk through painful experiences and life changes.
She works in plain terms and helps people build skills for emotion regulation and healthier relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on real-life problems like communication breakdowns, commitment doubts, jealousy, and issues around body image or sexual expression. She is queer identified and brings that perspective into her work with LGBTQIA+ concerns and minority stress. Murphy uses a mix of practical therapy approaches chosen to match a person’s goals and readiness.
That can mean learning new coping skills, practicing ways to manage intense emotions, or working through the effects of past trauma. She describes her style as collaborative and trauma-informed, emphasizing respect and curiosity in sessions. With eight years of clinical experience, Murphy helps people navigate complicated feelings like guilt, shame, and abandonment.
She also supports those dealing with relationship conflict, infidelity, divorce, or midlife transitions. Her approach is steady and goal-oriented, focused on steps people can use between sessions. People who reach out will complete a short matching questionnaire to connect and then schedule sessions based on availability.
Therapy is offered in English and is delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small actions that align with their values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It works well for anxiety and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication to manage intense emotions and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Murphy will talk with each person about goals, strengths, and preferences and then use techniques from these therapies as a team decision. That means sessions can shift toward skill-building, trauma processing, or relational work depending on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging supports ongoing connection between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while using methods like ACT, CBT, and DBT in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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