Bridget Stevens-Murphy

Bridget Stevens-Murphy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with eight years of practice experience. She draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy and relational approaches to help people navigate stress, grief, anxiety, and trauma. Her style is warm and grounded, focused on building a trusting relationship so people can feel understood and empowered to make changes.

She listens carefully and uses conversation and reflection to help people notice patterns in their lives. Bridget works from a strength-based, person-centered foundation and pays attention to relationships and attachment. This often helps people facing relationship strain, intimacy concerns, adoption and foster care questions, or family of origin struggles.

Practical tools are included alongside relational work. She incorporates elements of cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused techniques when useful. Clients may learn ways to manage anxiety, shift unhelpful thinking, and strengthen close bonds.

Her background includes a Master of Social Work with a children and families specialization from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and domestic and international work experience. She holds a Minnesota LICSW and brings attention to parenting, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and first responder issues.

People who choose her often want a collaborative therapist who balances empathy with practical steps. Bridget aims to help clients better understand themselves, find acceptance, and build more enlivening relationships and daily routines.

How different approaches shape online therapy

Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on addressing how past harmful experiences affect current feelings and behavior. In brief, it helps people work through traumatic memories and reduce their impact on daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to patterns in close relationships and how early bonds influence trust, communication, and emotional responses. It can help when relationship problems or family of origin issues keep resurfacing.

Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, history, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize trauma work, attachment repair, or more cognitive and emotion-focused skills as therapy progresses.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and using shorter check-ins when needed. The original biography referenced messaging, live chat, and phone sessions, so ask the service to confirm which of these formats are currently offered before booking. Online work can make it easier to maintain steady momentum between in-person commitments and to try techniques in everyday settings without rearranging major parts of a schedule.