Deanna Murray , LMFT

Deanna Murray is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, and self-esteem concerns. She works with adults facing life transitions, grief, addiction struggles, and intimacy-related worries. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making early sessions feel manageable for someone who may be nervous about starting therapy.

She draws on 13 years of clinical experience in Texas to shape conversations and plans that fit each person's situation. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small, practical steps that can be tried between meetings. She listens for what matters most to each client and adjusts pace and focus accordingly.

Deanna uses a mix of approaches to match individual needs, including client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, existential questions about meaning, and narrative methods that reframe difficult stories. Those tools help with things like coping with life changes, repairing communication problems, and working through guilt or shame.

People often come for help with family problems, codependency, infertility stress, midlife concerns, or feelings of isolation and loneliness. She also supports clients dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, and grief by creating a steady, predictable process for addressing painful memories and emotions.

Her sessions are structured to be collaborative and practical. Deanna helps clients set realistic steps, track progress, and change the plan when needed so therapy stays relevant to day-to-day life.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Deanna commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening closely to what a person wants and building sessions around their priorities, which helps when clients need emotional support or clearer goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical experiments to change patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

She also integrates emotionally-focused ideas when relationship strain or intimacy issues come up, helping people tune in to emotions and respond differently to partners or family members. Choosing an approach is a joint process; the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and achievable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a brief check-in option, and ongoing text messaging supports frequent reflection and short updates between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into busy days.