Bridget Stevens-Murphy, LICSW

Bridget Stevens-Murphy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in Minnesota with a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earned in 2002 with a focus on children and families. She has worked both domestically and internationally across a range of clinical settings, bringing a breadth of experience to her therapeutic work.

Bridget describes her approach as warm and grounded, centered on helping people feel comfortable, supported, and empowered as they navigate life’s challenges. Her practice is rooted in strengths-based, relational, holistic, and person-centered principles, grounded in the belief that individuals are the experts of their own lives and can benefit from an objective, respectful perspective to find resolution and acceptance.

She focuses on issues such as adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and family of origin difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anxiety and depression, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting and blended family matters, fertility and caregiver stress, and career and life transitions. Bridget is a Trust-Based Relational Intervention practitioner and is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which inform her work with individuals and families.

She offers messaging, live chat, and phone sessions with limited evening and weekend availability, and typically checks messages twice each day, seven days a week. Bridget welcomes working with international clients and aims to walk alongside people as they build more enlivening and enriching lives and relationships.

Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy supports them

Bridget often integrates Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust. This approach helps with attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and relational difficulties by focusing on rebuilding secure bonds and understanding relational responses.

She also uses a Client-Centered Therapy stance, offering empathic, nonjudgmental listening that places the client’s experience at the center of the work. This method supports people facing life transitions, identity concerns, and emotional distress by promoting self-understanding and personal growth.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is employed to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors related to anxiety, depression, trauma responses, and stress. CBT provides practical strategies to develop coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Bridget will work together with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and aligned with personal values and needs.

Online therapy offers flexibility to engage by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, access care from different locations, and maintain continuity during life changes. Those options allow for consistent, ongoing work with licensed professionals and therapists in a way that accommodates many lifestyles and preferences.