DR. BRIT MURPHY, PSYD
Owner, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Emphasizing the balance of acceptance and change, I strive to promote wellness, self-acceptance, and growth in the lives of others. I use my expertise in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and trauma-informed care to help people recognize unhealthy patterns and create positive change to build more fruitful lives.
I am a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™.
My style is warm, humorous and direct; I will cheer you on while also challenging you to live your best life.
In my free time I enjoy skiing, attending concerts, playing guitar, boating on Lake Winnipesaukee and hiking in the White Mountains with my mini goldendoodle, Noodle.
(Noodle is training to be a therapy dog!)
TRAINING & CLINICAL APPROACH
While I use an eclectic approach, my style draws primarily from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT is an evidence-based treatment that focuses on reducing ineffective and/or harmful behaviors by teaching skills to enhance a person's natural capabilities. In a nutshell, DBT helps people struggling to regulate their emotions and behaviors gain more stability.
Prior to starting NovaMind DBT, I served as the Program Director for Endurance Behavioral Health, a partial hospital and intensive outpatient program for youth in NH's Seacoast Region. I completed my post-doctoral fellowship at Endurance Behavioral Health. I obtained my pre-doctoral training at Riverbend Community Mental Health serving on the adolescent DBT team, as well as at Massachusetts Mental Health Center in the DBT/CBT partial hospital programs and South Bay Community Services providing in-home therapy.
Outside of NovaMind DBT, I volunteer with the Red Cross Disaster Mental Health team and Camp Erin Boston, a free bereavement camp for children.
WHAT THE HECK IS DBT?!
Humans are rational creatures. Everything we do serves a purpose for us at some point in time. However, as time goes on, our goals can change and sometimes our once useful behaviors become ineffective or even harmful.
I often describe dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as “common sense therapy.” Using familiar concepts, DBT helps people recognize when their behaviors are no longer serving them and teaches them how to replace these behaviors with skills to more effectively meet their needs/goals.
DBT focuses on dialectics: the idea that two opposing ideas can actually both be true at the same time.
For example, you may not have caused all of your own problems AND you have to be the one to solve them anyways. DBT is an effective, science-backed therapy that helps people balance acceptance and change.
DBT assumes that if someone’s life is full of pain/suffering, it makes sense that they may try to cope however they can. DBT helps people make lasting changes to build a life that they don’t need to escape from— a life that feels more worth living.
