- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Angela
Angela Murphy is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Idaho with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and other life strains. Angela aims to listen closely and work alongside clients as they find better ways to cope.
She centers her work on each person's strengths and goals. Sessions are practical and straightforward.
Background and approach
Angela helps people notice unhelpful coping habits and try new, gentler ways of responding to stress and relationships. Her background includes work with trauma and an emphasis on womens life issues. She has experience with adoption and foster care, attachment questions, caregiver stress, multicultural concerns, and issues related to sexual assault and domestic violence.
That experience informs how she sees patterns that come from family history and culture. Angela combines client-centered listening with tools drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and trauma-focused work. She encourages self-compassion while teaching concrete skills for mood, sleep, anger, and communication.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She also has training in qualitative research and has studied gender roles and religious trauma. Those interests shape how she explores identity, expectations, and the messages people carry from their families.
Angela aims to help clients strengthen relationships with others and with themselves.
What Angela works with
Everything Angela lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Angela helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Approaches Angela lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches for online parenting and trauma support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and building trust. It helps people feel heard and encourages them to set goals that matter to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches straightforward skills to change thoughts and behaviors that keep stress, anxiety, or mood problems going. It is useful for sleep troubles, worry, anger, and improving daily routines.Trauma-focused work pays attention to how past harm affects current coping and relationships. It looks at patterns that developed after trauma and helps people develop safer, more effective ways to manage triggers and emotions. Your therapist will talk with you about goals and recommend approaches based on what you want to change, how you respond to challenges, and your personal preferences. Figuring out the right mix of methods is a team effort rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and people with tight schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing tracking, or quick skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, and daily life while still learning concrete skills and getting steady support.
Questions people ask about Angela
What concerns does Angela address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, parenting struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and related issues such as sleep, eating, anger, self-esteem, and career stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm and person-centered. She listens closely, partners with clients, and mixes practical skill-building with compassionate reflection.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has six years of therapy experience and has worked with trauma and womens life issues over recent years.
What credentials and region should I know about?
She holds the LPC credential as a licensed professional counselor and practices from Idaho.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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