About Carmel
Carmel Murray is an AASW social worker who supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression and major life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life a little easier. Carmel writes plainly and keeps sessions grounded and approachable for worried parents and busy adults.
Her work combines body-focused Somatic approaches with client-centred listening and practical cognitive tools. Sessions often include noticing physical reactions, learning simple grounding techniques, and talking through thoughts that keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
Carmel uses mindfulness practices and narrative ideas to help people rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves. She has seven years of experience in the field and draws on that time to adapt methods to each person. Carmel believes clients are the experts in their lives and that therapy is a collaborative effort to build on existing strengths.
She aims for clear goals and small, achievable steps between sessions. People come to Carmel for a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, addiction issues, sleep problems, ADHD and compassion fatigue. She also offers support around attachment wounds, chronic health challenges, and recovery from domestic violence or other trauma.
Her sessions are down-to-earth and paced to the client's comfort. Carmel encourages questions and checks in about what is and isn’t helpful as therapy progresses. This straightforward approach helps clients try new ways of coping without overwhelming changes.
How Carmel's approaches translate to online care
Somatic work helps people become aware of body sensations that relate to stress and trauma; it uses gentle attention to breathing, posture and movement to reduce reactivity and improve calm. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening deeply and following the person's priorities, which supports building trust and setting goals together. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change those patterns.Carmel treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will check in about your goals, try methods in session, and adjust what she does based on what feels useful. That means the mix of somatic noticing, reflective listening and CBT skills can shift as your needs change.
Session formats are not specified in her profile, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and enable visual or audio work depending on what suits you. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt somatic and mindfulness exercises for remote sessions so you can practise skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English