About Bry Murphy, LMFT

I’m Bry Murphy, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the founder of A Way Through Therapy in Parker, Colorado.

I work with individuals, couples, and families who are trying to better understand themselves, their relationships, and the patterns that keep showing up in painful or confusing ways. Many of the people I work with feel stuck in cycles they can see clearly, but cannot always seem to change — cycles of anxiety, defensiveness, resentment, disconnection, people-pleasing, withdrawal, or difficulty asking for what they need.

My approach begins with the belief that people make sense.

The ways we protect ourselves, pursue connection, avoid conflict, shut down, overfunction, or try to keep everything together often developed for a reason. These patterns may have helped you get through earlier relationships or difficult seasons of life. Over time, though, what once protected you can begin to create distance, anxiety, resentment, or disconnection.

Therapy offers a place to slow those patterns down and understand them with more compassion and clarity.

What Shaped My Work

I am a Colorado native and grew up in a large, blended family. That experience gave me an early awareness of how complex, meaningful, and layered relationships can be. Families shape us not only through what is said, but also through what is felt, repeated, protected, and left unspoken.

That background continues to influence the way I understand people and relationships. I am drawn to the deeper patterns that shape how we seek connection, protect ourselves from pain, respond to conflict, and make sense of ourselves in relation to others.

I am also married and a mom to two daughters, which continues to deepen my respect for the vulnerability, responsibility, and growth that come with close relationships and family life.

While these parts of my story inform the warmth and perspective I bring to therapy, the focus of our work is always you — your story, your relationships, your pain, your hopes, and the patterns you are ready to better understand.

My Clinical Approach

My work is attachment-based, relational, emotionally focused, and psychoanalytic-informed.

An attachment-based approach helps us understand how your relationships have shaped the way you experience closeness, conflict, safety, vulnerability, and emotional needs.

A relational approach means I pay attention to the patterns that show up between people — in couples, families, friendships, and also in the relationship you have with yourself.

An emotionally focused approach helps us slow down and understand the feelings underneath your reactions, rather than only focusing on behavior or communication strategies.

A psychoanalytic-informed approach allows us to be curious about what may be happening beneath the surface — the older patterns, fears, defenses, longings, and meanings that may still be shaping your present-day life.

Together, we may explore why certain reactions feel so familiar, what your protective patterns are trying to do for you, and what becomes possible when those patterns no longer have to work so hard.

What Therapy With Me Is Like

Therapy with me is reflective, collaborative, and paced with care. I am interested in what is happening now, but also in the deeper emotional and relational patterns underneath what is happening.

I do not see therapy as a place where you are judged, analyzed from a distance, or told what to do. I see it as a place where we can slow things down enough to understand what is happening with more honesty and compassion.

At times, therapy may feel validating. At other times, it may feel gently challenging. My hope is to offer a space where you feel deeply understood while also being supported in seeing yourself and your relationships in new ways.

The goal is not to become someone else. The goal is to become more connected to yourself — more able to recognize what you feel, name what you need, understand your patterns, and respond from steadiness rather than fear, shame, or self-protection.

Education and Training

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado. My clinical work is grounded in attachment theory, family systems, emotionally focused therapy, and psychoanalytic/psychodynamic thinking.

I have completed Level 1 training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and an Emotionally Focused Therapy externship, both of which support my work with couples and relational patterns. I am also currently in the process of completing EMDR training, which continues to deepen my understanding of how distressing experiences can shape the nervous system, relationships, and emotional responses.

My training and experience inform the way I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating relationship distress, anxiety, attachment patterns, grief, life transitions, codependency, boundaries, and family dynamics.

Why A Way Through

I named my practice A Way Through Therapy because I believe healing is rarely about bypassing pain, forcing quick change, or trying to become unaffected by what has happened.

Often, healing means finding a way through: through grief, through old protective patterns, through hard conversations, through fear, through disconnection, and through the parts of ourselves we have ignored, criticized, or carried alone.

You do not have to have everything figured out before beginning therapy. You only need a place to start.

If something here resonates with you, I welcome you to reach out. We can begin with a consultation and talk together about whether therapy with me feels like the right fit.