About Chastity
Dr. Chastity Murray helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and parenting concerns. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, career questions, and major life changes.
Dr. Murray is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she brings 15 years of experience to her work in New York. Her sessions are practical and focused.
She uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to find steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Clients can expect a supportive tone with gentle challenge when it helps. Dr.
Murray asks direct questions and offers tools to practice between sessions. The goal is to move toward the outcomes each person names for themselves. She pays attention to patterns like attachment issues, communication problems, codependency, and control struggles.
She also works with people dealing with substance use, domestic violence histories, impulsivity, infidelity, and co-occurring concerns. Practical matters such as pregnancy and childbirth, parenting strain, multicultural concerns, and life purpose are included in her focus. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to what each person needs in the moment.
The approach aims to be straightforward and results-oriented while keeping the person at the center of the work.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and responding to each person's experience in a way that follows their lead. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist and client build a working relationship and set goals based on what matters most to the person.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. In video or phone sessions, CBT tools can be introduced, practiced, and adapted to day-to-day life between meetings.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, achievable steps and what works now. That makes it well suited to short check-ins by live chat or text as well as fuller conversations by video call.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different formats. This is a shared process that may shift over time.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick updates, brief problem-solving, or ongoing accountability between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English