Bridget Stevens-MurphyLICSW

Bridget Stevens-Murphy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a warm, grounded listening style to sessions. Bridget focuses on helping people feel comfortable, empowered, and clearer about their next steps.

Her approach centers on strength, relationships, and the person in front of her. She uses attachment-based ideas, client-centered conversation, and cognitive-behavioral tools to help with everyday struggles. This includes stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship or intimacy concerns.

Bridget also addresses parenting and family-related stresses such as adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, attachment concerns, and caregiver strain. She supports people coping with fertility and pregnancy-related worries and other life transitions. First responder issues and compassion fatigue are included among her focus areas.

Sessions emphasize reflection, practical strategies, and building a trusting relationship. Bridget aims to help people better understand themselves and make choices that lead to more enlivening relationships and daily life. Her background includes domestic and international work, and she holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

People who prefer a collaborative, person-centered style may find this approach helpful. Bridget encourages open conversation and practical steps that fit each person’s situation and goals.

Therapeutic approaches for online care and life changes

Attachment-based therapy emphasizes safe, responsive relationships and helps people notice how early connections shape current patterns. It can be useful for attachment issues, adoption or foster care concerns, and relationship struggles.

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following what matters most to the person. This approach helps people gain clarity, increase self-understanding, and make choices that match their values.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy uses practical steps to notice patterns of thought and behavior and then try different responses. It often helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be a collaborative process. The therapist will help identify which methods match a person’s goals, preferences, and the specific issues they bring to sessions.

Confirm available online session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks, or avoiding the need to be on camera when that feels harder. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and reflection to an online setting to help people practice new skills between meetings.