Sarah DuVall Murray, LCSW

Sarah DuVall Murray is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New Jersey with 12 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where adults can examine the challenges they face and work toward healthier, more balanced functioning. Respect for each person’s unique perspective guides her approach, and she emphasizes collaborative work with clients to address individualized therapeutic needs. She believes that meaningful change occurs within an authentic therapeutic relationship built on acceptance, compassion, and care, and she helps people develop the skills to tolerate, accept, and find purpose amid life’s inevitable distress.

She provides therapy for adults managing depression, anxiety, stress, grief, life transitions, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, anger, self-esteem struggles, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Her additional focus areas include caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, family-of-origin issues, forgiveness, life purpose, mood disorders, and challenges faced by young adults. Treatment is tailored to the individual and draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and psychodynamic approaches, with an openness to integrating Eastern philosophy and practical psychoeducation such as articles and books when helpful.

She earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Her clinical background includes work in both outpatient and inpatient settings, experience in psychiatric emergency services, and a start in community mental health serving seriously mentally ill adults. She is licensed in New Jersey as an LCSW.