About Caitlin
Caitlin Murray meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that feel doable. She believes people are not broken, but that patterns can be changed. Caitlin sees therapy as a collaborative effort where the client guides the goals and she offers structure, tools, and perspective.
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing from Tennessee. Caitlin draws on her early clinical work in addiction to inform how she responds to distress.
Background and approach
She noticed many clients also carried grief, trauma, and ongoing stress that shaped their coping. This has led her to help people untangle how past events affect current habits and relationships. In sessions she uses clear, concrete methods.
Some people work through a list of memories one by one. Others focus on emotions or patterns in daily life. Homework varies from short written tasks to simple awareness exercises that fit into a busy day.
Caitlin often uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change thought-action cycles. She also borrows ideas from narrative therapy to rewrite unhelpful stories, and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Her style follows the humanistic idea of offering unconditional positive regard.
She works with concerns such as addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, gender and LGBT issues, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include attachment issues, communication problems, and mood or panic symptoms. Sessions are conducted in English and based in Tennessee.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts and actions. It involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding. This approach can help with anxiety, mood problems, and addictive patterns.Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. Sessions may involve retelling events to highlight strengths or alternative meanings, which can reduce shame and reshape identity. This is useful for grief, gender questions, and feelings of guilt or shame.
Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and tolerating distress. Skills might include breathing and grounding techniques, plus strategies to improve communication and reduce impulsive behavior.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video gives a face-to-face feel for deeper work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel and make it easier to fit consistent care into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English