Bridget Stevens-Murphy , LICSW

Bridget Stevens-Murphy, LICSW, brings a relational, person-centered approach to therapy. She focuses on building a calm, trusting connection and uses conversation and reflection to help people better understand themselves. Bridget helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues related to parenting and career changes.

She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships still affect current feelings and reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when emotions and connection are central to a problem.

Bridget’s work is grounded in strengths and respect for each person’s experience. She aims to make the therapy space one where people feel heard and empowered to make changes that matter to them. Her approach is straightforward and warm rather than overly clinical.

Her background includes both domestic and international work and a Master of Social Work with a focus on children and families from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Minnesota Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential, LICSW.

Bridget is experienced supporting people through adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and family-of-origin issues, fertility and caregiver stress, codependency and communication struggles. She also works with first responder issues, compassion fatigue, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.

Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients are accepted, and therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

Applying relational and practical approaches online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions using this approach often look at relationship patterns and how to build more secure ways of relating, which can help with intimacy and family-of-origin issues.

Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s pace to help them feel understood and to explore what matters most in their life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, aims to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear tools to test thoughts and shift routine responses.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they may try one approach or blend techniques from different models to fit the issue at hand.

Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth or when being on camera is not desired, live chat allows real-time back-and-forth for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and differing needs.