About Bridget
Bridget Stevens-Murphy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a calm, grounded presence to sessions. Bridget focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Her approach centers on attachment-based and client-centered principles. She listens closely and helps people notice patterns that shape their relationships and sense of self.
How Bridget works
Sessions involve straightforward conversation, reflection, and practical steps to try between meetings. Bridget also uses cognitive behavioral strategies and emotionally-focused techniques to address unwanted thoughts and improve communication. She helps people identify small behavior changes that reduce distress and build stronger connections with others.
Existential ideas are woven in when clients face questions about meaning or purpose. Her background includes domestic and international work in varied settings. She earned a Master of Social Work degree and holds the Minnesota LICSW credential.
Bridget treats adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and family-of-origin problems alongside trauma-related and fertility issues. People who work with Bridget can expect a respectful, strength-based style. She aims to make therapy understandable and useful.
Conversations are practical and focused on outcomes clients notice in daily life.
Bridget lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Bridget works with
The areas below are the ones Bridget selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships. It helps people notice how early bonds shape current reactions and supports building safer, more connected ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room - the therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathic listening, and helps the client find their own solutions to concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or lift mood. These approaches are useful for stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma reactions, and adjustment to life changes.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Bridget will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try together. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress or new issues emerge, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing reflection and quick check-ins between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping a steady course of support.
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