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Therapy Designed for Real Change

Compassion, structure, and meaning—healing isn’t one-size-fits-all.

Your struggles are real; your story matters. We use methods that honor your need for concrete tools and a deeper understanding. 

Individual Therapy

50-minute telehealth sessions (IN & FL), paced to your goals and readiness. 

Conditions We Treat

Conditions We Treat 
Depression, Anxiety, and ongoing emotional and behavioral challenges. 

Our Approaches

  • DBT: structured, compassionate tools to manage emotions, strengthen relationships, and build stability. 
  • Existential Therapy: meaning, purpose, and authenticity in the face of life’s challenges. 

Together: DBT = structure & skills; Existential = depth & meaning. 

What You Can Expect

A safe space, direct and compassionate guidance, occasional homework/skills practice, and a focus on both reducing suffering and building an authentic life. 

About Your Therapist

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Katherine Murphy, M.A., M.S., LMHC — Licensed in Indiana & Florida; Over 15 years of experience supporting behavior change with a judgment-free, compassionate, skill-building approach. 

Katherine Murphy, M.A., M.S., LMHC, Katherine Murphy, M.A., M.S., LMHC, brings over 10 years of experience as an educator and clinician dedicated to finding balance, social justice, and inclusive care. She holds a master’s degree in Ethnic Studies and began her career as a college professor and educator before earning her second master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with advanced training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Katherine has worked in individual outpatient therapy, corrections, community mental health, and disability services. Licensed in both Florida and Indiana, she has served as a Clinical Director and provides DBT-informed therapy grounded in authenticity, cultural awareness, and compassion. Drawing from both evidence-based practice and lived experience, Katherine helps clients build stability, self-compassion, and authentic connection.  

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Focus

Who I Work With

Addiction & Recovery

People struggling with addiction often spend years trying to hold their lives together while privately feeling ashamed, overwhelmed, emotionally reactive, or exhausted. Many clients are highly capable and self-aware, yet still find themselves returning to alcohol, substances, compulsive behaviors, or unhealthy coping patterns when stress, loneliness, pressure, or emotional pain increases. Over time, this can create cycles of shame, secrecy, isolation, and self-criticism that become difficult to interrupt alone.

BeCalm Counseling provides structured, nonjudgmental support focused on understanding the function the behavior serves rather than simply focusing on stopping the behavior itself. This work helps clients build emotional regulation skills, reduce relapse patterns, increase nervous system stability, and develop safer ways to cope without relying on avoidance, numbing, or self-destructive patterns.

Chronic Mental Health & Co-Occurring Disorders

People living with chronic mental health struggles often feel emotionally exhausted from trying to function while carrying anxiety, depression, mood instability, emotional overwhelm, trauma responses, or long-standing behavioral patterns. Many clients have spent years trying medications, therapy, or crisis management while still feeling internally unstable, misunderstood, or frightened by the intensity of their emotional experiences.

BeCalm Counseling offers structured therapy focused on stabilization, nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, and behavioral change. Treatment is individualized and designed to help clients better understand their patterns, reduce shame, improve daily functioning, and create a more sustainable and manageable internal life over time.

Men’s Mental Health

Many men are taught to survive stress through productivity, emotional suppression, avoidance, anger, substances, isolation, or over-functioning. Over time, this can lead to emotional shutdown, relationship difficulties, chronic pressure, irritability, burnout, or feeling disconnected from themselves and others. Some men enter therapy wanting practical support but feeling uncertain about how to talk openly about emotional experiences or ask for help safely.

BeCalm Counseling provides direct, structured, and practical therapy focused on emotional regulation, communication, behavioral change, nervous system stabilization, and relationship functioning. The work is collaborative, honest, and focused on helping men build greater internal stability without shame or judgment.

Trauma & Nervous System Work

Many people living with trauma do not necessarily identify their experiences as trauma. Instead, they describe chronic anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, hyper-independence, difficulty resting, relationship instability, or constantly feeling ‘on edge.’ Long-term stress, emotional invalidation, addiction, or survival-based coping patterns can leave the nervous system operating in a constant state of protection even when life appears stable externally.

BeCalm Counseling focuses on helping clients understand how their nervous system adapted over time and how those patterns continue to affect emotions, behaviors, relationships, and physical symptoms in the present. Therapy is focused on stabilization, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, boundary work, and helping clients feel safer and more regulated internally.

Structured Therapy for Active Change

Some clients come to therapy wanting more than emotional support or insight alone. They may already understand their patterns intellectually but continue struggling with emotional reactions, behavioral cycles, addiction patterns, shutdown, avoidance, or relationship difficulties. Many are looking for a more structured and engaged approach that helps them apply skills consistently in everyday life.

BeCalm Counseling provides DBT-informed, skills-based therapy focused on nervous system regulation, emotional regulation, relapse prevention, communication, accountability, boundary work, and long-term behavioral change. The goal is to help clients build a life that feels more stable, manageable, and emotionally sustainable over time.

Addiction

Substance use serves a function. 
If that function is not addressed, the behavior returns.

Trauma

Trauma presents as patterns in behavior, emotion, and relationships.

Mental health

Anxiety, depression, and overwhelm often reflect the same underlying system.

Chronic symptoms

Chronic pain, inflammation, and sleep disruption are often connected to ongoing nervous system activation. 

Nervous system

This approach is grounded in how the nervous system responds to long-term stress and early experiences.

Method

DBT-informed, skills-based therapy 

  • Nervous system regulation
  • Behavioral change
  • Emotional stabilization

Men

Functioning and control without regulation often leads to shutdown, reactivity, or avoidance.

Queer clients

Queer-affirming care without requiring explanation or justification.

High-functioning presentation

Externally stable. Internally dysregulated. 
Patterns persist despite insight.