Jessica Murray

I offer attachment based, trauma informed, emotion focused psychotherapy to help you with internal problems such as anxiety, depression, hopelessness, or difficult emotions. I can also help with problems which arise in relationships but which have an internal component. 

I practice ISTDP; a highly effective model of therapy that works deeply, allowing us to access the unconscious emotional processes underlying the issues you want my help with.  We will work collaboratively, paying close attention to your embodied experience as we explore your issues.  Often I help clients notice and take control of  habitual ways of responding to themselves or to others.

My work is psychodynamic and considers early experiences, but with a focus on how these are impacting your current life.  Often we are unconsciously carrying around emotions for the past, perhaps continuing to avoid them in ways which were adaptive and helpful when we were younger and in a different circumstance. Now however, those emotions can be triggered and either overwhelm us, or cause us to resort to habits which hurt or limit us.  Often clients find that with time they are able to fully and safely experience deep emotions and so no longer need those old, limiting habits.