About Gabrielle
Gabrielle McMurphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who works with people managing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. She uses somatic ideas alongside talk-based therapy to help people notice how their body and mind respond to stress. Gabrielle writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel calm and approachable from the first session.
She keeps sessions practical and focused on what a person needs now. That can mean learning simple grounding skills, trying different ways to respond to difficult thoughts, or practising small behavioral changes.
Background and approach
Gabrielle draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients clarify values and build routines that support them. Her background includes three years providing clinical care as a licensed counselor. Gabrielle holds LPC and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credentials in the states listed on her profile.
She works with adults facing common life challenges such as depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addictions, and relationship stressors. Additional areas she often addresses include caregiver strain, chronic pain and illness, attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, and co-occurring conditions. She also supports people coping with major life transitions and compassion fatigue.
Gabrielle communicates in English and conducts sessions from North Carolina. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules according to the listed availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Somatic-oriented therapy helps people tune into bodily sensations and simple movement or breathing practices to reduce stress and reactivity. It can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and situations where physical tension is part of the experience.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values. It uses present-moment awareness and acceptance strategies to move forward even when uncomfortable feelings are present.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person as the expert in their life and prioritizes empathy and nonjudgmental listening. This approach helps people feel heard and build confidence while exploring change.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video and phone calls allow face-to-face time without travel, while live chat and text-based messaging provide short, flexible check-ins. These options support continuity of care and let people use the format that feels most workable for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Idaho, North Carolina
- Languages
- English