Jennifer Murphy(She/Her/Hers)

Jen Murphy is a person-centered, somatic therapist who values the therapeutic relationship above all else, wherein the consistency and trust built there is what heals. Jen believes that being a witness to someone's healing journey is a true honor and a privilege. Trained in EMDR, and as trauma informed expressive arts therapist, the framework of holistic wellness guides the practice. Together, with a strengths based, empowerment approach, learn to access safety in your body, re-wire your nervous system, and make meaning of your life.

Jen uses narrative therapy and parts work to help you get clear about your values and boundaries, to tap into your intuition and ultimately your personal power. Much of the work to strengthen your relationship with yourself will be like a type of home coming.

With the use of expressive arts therapy, you will have the rare and expansive ability to address yourself fully, through the depths of your sensory channels, and with a breadth of modalities you will learn to deepen your trust with yourself. Storytelling in expressive arts therapy has the opportunity to empower you to use action oriented and sensory based processes to create, connect, and heal.

Jen was trained as an expressive arts therapist in clinical mental health counseling and received her masters from Lesley University, she previously completed her undergraduate program through a dual degree program at Tufts and SMFA.

Jen worked in domestic violence homeless shelters and sexual assault emergency care while living in Boston. After moving to Providence, Jen started working in the Women's Center at SSTAR where she continued to do work with C-PTSD.

Because of her work in acute crisis care, she got trained as an EMDR therapist, a type of trauma treatment that helps to re process traumatic memories and connect the right and left hemispheres of the brain.