Karen Murphree

Karen Murphree is an LCSW with thirty years of experience helping adults name and navigate difficult feelings. She starts by listening to what feels off in everyday life - the moments that make you feel ashamed, disconnected, or stuck. Her work often focuses on anger, grief, anxiety, and changes that upend routines and relationships.

She describes a whole-person, strength-based approach rather than an illness-focused model. That means she blends traditional talk therapy with creative methods like guided imagery, music, art, movement, and rituals when those tools feel useful. She also pays attention to sleep, food, and lifestyle factors that affect mood.

Her background includes time as a licensed practical nurse and coursework in natural and alternative healing and health coaching. She pairs experiential practices with evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy and also uses EMDR-related approaches alongside attachment ideas.

Karen welcomes clients who identify across a range of identities, including LGBTQIA2S+ and kink-friendly people. She offers an open, nonjudgmental presence and often shares educational resources people can use between sessions.

Outside the therapy room she is a spiritual animist, reiki master, and someone who enjoys gardening, making herbal products, and cooking. She aims to help people find practical ways to shift limiting beliefs and build routines that support their mental and physical well-being.

How these approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions can use conversation and guided exercises to notice patterns and practice new ways of relating to others and to oneself.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, with the therapist offering acceptance and gentle reflection. In remote sessions this looks like direct listening, checking in about what matters most, and helping people set small, realistic steps they can try between meetings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Practically, CBT during online work uses simple exercises, worksheets, and real-life experiments that clients can do between sessions to track change.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they choose techniques that fit the person's strengths and daily life and adjust the plan as needed.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that is helpful. It can also support working with creative exercises and homework between meetings to reinforce changes in everyday routines.