About Jessica
Jessica Murphy is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. She also supports concerns around relationships, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, grief, eating and body image struggles, anger, and self-esteem. Jessica speaks English and brings 20 years of practice to each session.
She aims to create a space that feels safe and active enough for honest work. Sessions focus on real-life strategies and skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Jessica mixes evidence-informed techniques with listening and reflection so each plan fits the person in front of her. Her background includes long-term work in community, residential, and outpatient settings. That experience shaped her approach to complicated problems like addiction, intimate partner violence, and co-occurring mental health concerns.
Jessica has provided recovery skills for people facing substance use issues and related challenges. In sessions she uses methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical behavior tools to teach coping skills. She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to repair relationships and strengthen self-understanding.
Conversations tend to be practical, with a focus on small, doable changes. Jessica tailors her work to each person’s goals and circumstances. She commonly helps people develop routines, manage overwhelming feelings, improve communication, and practice forgiveness or grief work.
Her aim is to help clients feel more capable and less stuck as they move forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and building small, values-based actions. It helps when worry, avoidance, or low motivation get in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and distractibility. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and helps people understand how early bonds affect current connections and trust.Choosing the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That may mean combining elements from different therapies over time, with regular check-ins about what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be helpful for quick skill practice, brief updates, or when someone prefers written communication. These options support flexibility so people can fit therapy 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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