About Gabrielle
Gabrielle McMurphy helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, depression, or major life changes. She is Gabrielle McMurphy, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. Her style is warm and collaborative, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things and learn practical skills.
Gabrielle uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods to help people manage strong emotions and improve day-to-day functioning.
How Gabrielle works
She focuses on goals like building self-esteem, coping with trauma and loss, addressing addiction concerns, and managing mood conditions. Sessions are paced to fit where a person is right now, with small steps that add up over time. With three years of clinical experience, she brings a calm presence and clear techniques to sessions.
Gabrielle blends approaches so people can try different ways of thinking and acting, then keep what helps. She emphasizes collaboration and real-world practice between sessions. People can work with Gabrielle online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Those formats let conversations fit into busy days and give options for quick check-ins or longer talks. The subscription plan can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Gabrielle aims to make the first steps simple and manageable.
Gabrielle lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Gabrielle works with
The areas below are the ones Gabrielle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Gabrielle’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood by practicing new ways of responding. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships through mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gabrielle will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. Together they try methods and adjust them so sessions focus on what helps most in daily life.
Online therapy with Gabrielle is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow longer, face-to-face conversations while phone sessions can work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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