About Courtney
Courtney Murphy is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She has 25 years of experience helping people navigate relationship struggles, grief, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Her approach centers on respectful, compassionate conversation and practical problem solving.
Courtney adapts each meeting to the person in front of her. She listens for patterns around attachment, communication, control, and isolation, and then helps the client set clear, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on steps that reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Clients often bring issues such as abandonment wounds, body image concerns, caregiver stress, or difficulty forgiving themselves. She also supports people facing divorce, midlife transitions, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress.
Work can include learning emotion regulation skills, improving communication, and rebuilding a sense of purpose. Courtney takes a collaborative stance in sessions. She invites feedback and adjusts plans when needed.
Progress is tracked in small, measurable ways so people can see change over time. Her practice is practical and grounded. Conversations are direct but compassionate.
The aim is to leave each session with one or two clear steps to try between meetings.
Evidence-based approaches and online flexibility
Many clients benefit from techniques that focus on understanding patterns in relationships and emotions. One approach helps people identify attachment and communication patterns, then practices new ways of relating to reduce conflict and loneliness. This can be useful for someone struggling with abandonment, communication problems, or repeated relationship stress.Another helpful approach teaches practical skills for managing intense feelings and panic. It focuses on short, concrete tools to calm the nervous system and handle sudden anxiety or panic attacks. These techniques are often paired with work on guilt, shame, and rebuilding self-direction after loss or separation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what feels best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English