Angela Murphy
Compassionate therapy for complex life challenges
LPC Idaho
- Experience
- 6 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Angela
Angela Murphy is an LPC practicing in Idaho with six years of clinical experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of life challenges.
Background and approach
She focuses on helping clients untangle patterns that contribute to relationship difficulties, parenting strain, addiction concerns, grief, and issues with self-esteem and intimacy. Her work also addresses eating and sleeping problems, anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and culturally influenced struggles such as multicultural concerns and family of origin issues.
Drawing on client-centered principles and trauma-focused methods alongside cognitive behavioral tools, she helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts and develop practical coping skills grounded in self-compassion. Angela brings particular attention to attachment, adoption and foster care dynamics, communication problems, domestic violence, and sexual assault and abuse when relevant.
Her background includes qualitative research into women and gender roles, which informs a nuanced understanding of how cultural and familial messages shape coping patterns. Sessions emphasize collaboration and the development of relational skills, including how clients relate to their own inner experience.
Angela adapts an eclectic style to meet each person’s needs and supports clients in building healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
How Angela’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Angela combines cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused work with a client-centered orientation to help clients address thoughts, behaviors, and the impact of difficult experiences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing and integrating traumatic memories and their effects on relationships and coping, useful for those recovering from abuse, assault, or other traumatic events.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Angela collaborates with each person to explore goals, preferences, and needs, adjusting methods as the work evolves so the plan fits the client rather than requiring the client to fit a single model.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility: video calls enable face-to-face interaction, phone sessions remove geographic barriers, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or stepwise progress between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work around life demands while maintaining continuity of care with a licensed professional.
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Experience
6+ years
Licensed
Idaho
Languages
English