Angela Murphy, LPC

Angela Murphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Idaho with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on supporting people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues like self-esteem or burnout.

She uses a straightforward, person-centered style in sessions. Angela listens first and helps clients talk through what feels most urgent. She works with practical steps and coping tools that can be tried between meetings.

Angela draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and trauma-focused approaches. That means she helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, and then tests smaller changes that feel manageable. Trauma-focused methods guide careful work where past events continue to affect daily life.

Her background includes work with trauma and with women’s issues, and she brings attention to how family messages and culture shape coping styles. She also has training in qualitative research and an interest in adoption, attachment, and multicultural concerns.

Sessions aim to build new skills and greater self-compassion. Angela helps people improve communication, manage anger or addictive urges, and address sleep or eating struggles. She helps set small, doable goals and checks progress along the way.

How Angela’s approaches translate to online therapy

Angela draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused methods in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going and uses small experiments to change them, which works well in video or messaging formats. Trauma-focused approaches help process past harms and build safer coping skills at a pace the client can handle, with careful attention to triggers and stabilizing strategies.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Angela will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and daily routines, then suggest methods to try together. She adjusts plans based on what feels most helpful and practical for each person.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in option, and messaging lets clients share thoughts between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other busy schedules.