Murray Harvey, BACP

Murray Harvey is a counsellor with a BACP registration and three years of clinical experience. He studied counselling at university and completed a masters in psychology. Murray places ethics and safety at the front of his practice and aims to be open and straightforward with people who come to him.

He speaks from personal experience of anxiety, panic attacks, depression and substance use, and says that this helps him relate to others who are struggling. Murray identifies as working pluralistically, which means he adapts different approaches to match each person's needs rather than using a single fixed method. He invites people to be candid about what they want from therapy.

Murray describes himself as comfortable with a wide range of psychological issues and says he works well with anxiety-based problems and with men. He is clear that if a situation falls outside his skills he will say so rather than continue work that is not helpful. That honesty shapes how he discusses goals and progress in sessions.

His clinical interests include stress, anxiety, self-esteem, family concerns, bipolar disorder and coping with life changes. He also lists a range of additional focus areas such as attachment issues, codependency, eating and food-related problems, and feelings of emptiness.

Outside therapy, Murray enjoys music, walking his dog and reading about human behaviour. He keeps learning and says many people choose to stay for longer-term work, though he tailors the length of therapy to each person's needs.

How Murray’s approaches can help in online work

Murray uses Attachment-Based ideas and Client-Centred practice to focus on relationships and the therapeutic connection. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and reactions, and can help with trust, attachment issues and struggles around abandonment. Client-centred work prioritises the person’s perspective, offering space to be heard and to steer the conversation toward what matters most to them.

He also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try practical behaviour changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, stress and problems where changing patterns of thought and action makes daily life easier. Murray combines these approaches so the work is shaped by the person’s goals and by what seems most useful in session.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Murray will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try different ways of working to see what helps best. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to the person rather than forcing one method.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm session options before booking. Online work can help fit therapy around daily life, make it easier to have a shorter check-in when needed, and reduce travel time so sessions can be scheduled more conveniently.