About Murray
Murray Manus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings a strengths-based, humanistic outlook to therapy. He focuses on helping people who experienced childhood trauma from abuse and neglect. His style is warm, supportive, and encouraging, aimed at helping clients reconnect with who they are beneath years of survival habits.
Murray draws on client-centered and attachment-oriented ideas to create a calm, respectful space for talk. He listens for the ways early wounds shaped self-worth, relationships, and emotional habits.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on identifying buried needs and practical steps to meet them more consistently. He often works with concerns around trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, and low self-esteem. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, attachment issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Murray also has experience with midlife and gender-related questions, and end-of-life or hospice conversations. Over nine years as a clinical social worker in Illinois inform his approach to helping people heal from long-standing patterns. He aims to help clients make small, steady changes that feel manageable.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. Murray describes therapy as a process of uncovering a core self that was hidden to survive childhood. He helps people name their wants and needs, practice new ways of relating, and move toward a life less driven by fear and past harm.
Online approaches that focus on attachment and presence
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on relationships and how early bonds shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways with others and work toward more stable connections. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance where the client’s own goals guide the work; it supports building self-trust and clearer personal choices. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotions in real time and helps people identify and shift painful interaction patterns or inner reactions.Murray approaches choosing a method as a team effort. He will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they try ideas and adjust the approach based on what helps most in practice.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible, and take less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady, collaborative progress.
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- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English