Angela Murphy, LCSW

Angela Murphy is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 18 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people facing relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She frames the work around each person's strengths and goals. Taking a first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that first contact straightforward and respectful.

Angela listens with a client-centered approach that keeps the person's priorities in view. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also draws on solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals and build practical steps forward.

Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Angela helps people break down larger problems into small, doable tasks. She supports work on communication problems, intimacy-related concerns, and issues that come up during divorce or separation.

Her practice includes help for career questions, midlife changes, questions about life purpose, and challenges common to young adults. She also has experience addressing obsessions, compulsions, and other OCD-related patterns, as well as sexual dysfunction and self-love work.

People who want straightforward, strengths-based care may find this approach useful. The therapist encourages clients to set the pace and to shape sessions around real-life needs. Before booking, confirm current session formats and scheduling details through the Start Therapy process.

How these approaches shape online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. The therapist reflects what she hears and helps people make choices that match their values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thoughts and behaviors that maintain stress or anxiety and replaces them with more helpful patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy looks for quick, practical steps and builds on what already works for the client.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angela will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best. That decision is based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Confirm the available session options before booking, since this profile does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people keep therapy consistent during life transitions or when schedules vary. Conversations by remote session still center on clear goals, practical steps, and tracking progress over time.