Anna Murphy

Anna Murphy is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Iowa with nine years of clinical experience. She holds an Iowa Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, listed as IA LMHC 080832, and has worked across a range of care settings.

Her career includes roles in psychiatric hospitals, schools, community mental health centers, and private agencies. She has provided services to diverse age groups, working with clients from three years old through the geriatric population.

Murphy’s experience encompasses persistent and chronic mental illness, life transitions, trauma, mood and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, substance use, involvement with DHS, codependency, grief and loss, and challenges related to emotional regulation.

She earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 2012, majoring in Psychology and Studio Arts with a minor in Sociology, and completed a Master of Science in Art Therapy and Counseling at The College of New Rochelle in 2015.

Her therapeutic style is warm, interactive, and client-centered. She views individuals as the experts on their own lives and focuses on empowering and supporting clients while helping them develop coping strategies tailored to their unique circumstances. Her approach draws on trauma-informed methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution Focused techniques, and she also offers expressive therapy modalities when clients are open to those experiences.