Dr. Chastity Murray, LMHC

Dr. Chastity Murray is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with individuals facing a wide range of concerns, including depression, stress and anxiety, substance use, career exploration, grief and loss, family dynamics, and domestic violence for both offenders and victims. Her practice also addresses relationship challenges, self-esteem, parenting, trauma and abuse, and coping with major life changes.

Her approach blends solution-focused techniques with a person-centered stance, emphasizing the client as the expert on their own life while offering practical steps toward change. She partners with clients to clarify desired outcomes, identify obstacles, and create achievable strategies that move them toward their goals. While supportive throughout the therapeutic process, she also invites clients to consider difficult questions and examine patterns that may be holding them back.

Dr. Murray aims to help individuals take meaningful, self-directed steps toward the priorities they name. She combines empathy with focused interventions to help clients explore their experiences, build coping skills, and make progress on the issues they care about most. She welcomes the opportunity to work collaboratively with new clients.

Practical Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental stance that prioritizes the client’s own perspective and values. It helps people build self-understanding, increase confidence, and make choices that align with their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, stress, and addiction-related difficulties by teaching practical skills to manage symptoms and respond differently to challenges. Solution-Focused Therapy is brief and goal-oriented, concentrating on strengths and small, actionable steps to create forward momentum on specific issues like career decisions, coping with life transitions, or relationship challenges.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and licensed professionals like Dr. Murray work collaboratively with clients to determine what will be most helpful based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative assessment may blend elements from different approaches to fit each person’s situation.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing therapy to fit into busy schedules and reach people who may not be able to attend in-person sessions. These options support ongoing work between sessions and make it easier to access consistent care from a licensed therapist regardless of routine changes or geographic constraints.