About Murray
Murray Harvey is a psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom. He holds a BACP registration and practises with a straightforward, honest style. He has three years of professional experience and focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress.
Murray says he has lived through panic, depression, addiction and suicidal thinking, and he draws on that personal experience when he listens. He aims to be open and direct in sessions, and to work alongside each person to meet their needs.
Background and approach
He trained in counselling at university and completed a masters in psychology, and he continues to study to broaden his skills. Murray uses a pluralistic approach, which means he adapts methods to suit the individual rather than applying one fixed model. In practice he combines elements from attachment-based work, client-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques, among other approaches.
Sessions focus on clear goals, practical strategies and talking through the problems that matter most to the client. Murray works with common life challenges such as coping with change, family stress, low self-esteem and mood swings linked to bipolar presentations. He aims to be pragmatic - offering what each person wants or needs and being honest if another route would be better.
Outside work he enjoys music, walking his dog and reading about how people find meaning in difficult times. He encourages anyone curious to complete the short matching questionnaire to see if they might fit well together.
How Murray blends approaches online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape how people feel and relate now. It looks at patterns of trust, closeness and separation and can help when people struggle with abandonment, caregiving stress or relationship worries.Client-centred counselling puts the person's experience at the centre. The therapist listens without judgement and helps people make sense of their feelings, which can relieve anxiety and build self-esteem. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers straightforward tools to reduce anxious thinking and improve coping.
Murray sees finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then adapt methods from these approaches to fit those aims. That means the work can change over time if different methods suit better.
Online sessions use video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is low, and short messages or chat can be useful for brief check-ins or when people need more frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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