Jeffrey Murrah

Jeffrey Murrah is a licensed professional counselor with 41 years of experience. He focuses on practical help when people are tired, hurting, or ready to change. He listens, asks questions that make clients think, and helps people find new ways of coping with problems like anger, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles.

He has worked in many settings including hospitals, halfway houses, homeless shelters, schools, college classrooms, church counseling, foster care homes, and outpatient clinics. Those varied roles inform how he notices patterns and what tends to help in real life. He combines long-term insight with down-to-earth problem solving.

His approach blends psychodynamic ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means he helps people understand long-standing patterns while also trying new behaviors to reduce distress. He also uses solution-focused methods to set clear goals and find practical steps forward.

Jeffrey draws on personal experience from life in a blended family, a long marriage, raising three homeschooled sons, and caregiving for a parent with dementia. Those experiences shape his perspective on family conflict, caregiving stress, and forgiveness without turning them into assumptions about anyone's situation.

He helps with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, sleeping problems, intimacy and parenting challenges, process and substance addictions, and career or life transitions. He invites a conversation first to see what might fit you and your circumstances.

How these approaches shape online work

Jeffrey draws on psychodynamic ideas and cognitive behavioral therapy in his practice. Psychodynamic work looks at patterns from a person’s past and how they show up now, helping uncover reasons for repeated reactions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes that can reduce stress and anger.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether to focus on understanding long-term patterns, trying skills to change thinking and behavior, or a mix of both.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when a full hour isn't possible, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use online sessions to work on communication skills, coping strategies for anger and stress, relapse prevention for addiction, grief processing, and planning concrete next steps that fit daily routines.