About Jessica
Jessica Murph is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, and identity-related concerns. She uses straightforward, affirming care to support people facing eating or sleeping problems, attention challenges, addictions, and mood concerns like depression or bipolar symptoms.
Background and approach
Jessica aims to make therapy feel welcoming and direct. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and understanding how patterns in relationships affect daily life.
She centers respect and affirmation in sessions, including for queer clients and diverse sexual expressions. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods.
Jessica draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and build workable daily skills. She also uses attachment-based ideas to map how early relationships shape current reactions and choices.
Jessica has seven years of clinical experience and practices across Texas. She offers virtual care in formats that fit busy schedules, and she adapts pacing for neurodivergent people, including those with ADHD and autism.
Her work also addresses abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, chronic health challenges, and intimacy-related issues. In sessions Jessica leans toward practical tools and steady support.
She helps people name patterns, try new ways of relating, and build self-compassion. The tone is collaborative and grounded in everyday language so parents and adults can quickly grasp next steps.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take value-driven actions. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and moving through life changes by building flexible coping habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying a few tools from different approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video sessions let a person engage face-to-face without travel, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill practice, or when a brief message fits a hectic day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules and support steady progress across time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English