Courtney Murphy

Courtney Murphy is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 25 years of professional experience. She focuses on relationship concerns, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She aims to meet people where they are and support practical steps toward feeling more settled and in control.

Courtney uses a respectful and compassionate style. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Sessions are framed around clear goals and manageable steps rather than long lectures. The tone is direct, calm, and supportive to help people make steady progress.

Her background includes long-term clinical practice helping people cope with loss, attachment and abandonment concerns, and the emotional fallout of big life changes like divorce and separation. She also addresses panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and midlife challenges. This range reflects many years of working with common and complex reactions to stress.

Courtney pays attention to patterns in relationships, communication problems, and control issues that keep people stuck. She helps clients practice new ways of describing needs and setting boundaries. Work often includes building coping skills for intense emotions and reducing avoidance behaviors.

The first sessions focus on understanding what matters most to the individual and setting useful, short-term goals. From there she adjusts the pace and tools to fit each person’s situation. The emphasis is on realistic change that fits everyday life.

How evidence-based methods fit into online therapy

Courtney draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, active steps people can use between sessions. One approach helps people track and change patterns in thinking and behavior that fuel anxiety and depression, using practical exercises to reduce intense symptoms. Another focuses on understanding attachment and abandonment responses and then practicing better communication and boundary skills to improve relationships and reduce repeated hurt.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that suit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This is a shared process where feedback shapes the direction of therapy.

Practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling and fitting sessions into a busy day, since appointments can often move around without travel. Online work can also make it simpler to check in more frequently when short support is needed, and it can reduce the time cost of attending sessions. Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking.