About Amy
Amy FitzGerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, parenting strain, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and trauma. Her approach aims to make daily life feel more manageable and meaningful.
Amy centers sessions around what each person needs that week. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and uses clear, goal-focused work to address immediate concerns.
Background and approach
That often means practical skills people can try between sessions and short-term goals that build toward larger change. Her work blends talk therapy with body-centered practices. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and somatic techniques are used to help people notice and calm physical reactions to stress. Amy has a Master of Social Work and she holds the LCSW credential. She brings 14 years of clinical experience supporting people through life transitions, grief, parenting issues, and emotional wounds related to adoption and attachment.
Her background includes work with adoptive and birth parents, adoptees, and students facing intense academic pressure. Sessions are tailored to each person’s comfort level and values. Amy combines practical strategies, gentle inquiry, and body-awareness tools to help clients move forward.
She welcomes people seeking clearer priorities, steadier emotions, and healthier relationships.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Amy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on values-guided action so clients can take meaningful steps even when emotions are hard to sit with.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT often involves clear skill-building and short exercises people can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Mindfulness practices are woven into her work to increase present-moment awareness and ease physical stress responses. These practices pair well with somatic techniques when the body holds tension from past events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. She adjusts the plan as progress is made and as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy days or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins and written tools. These options make it easier to fit regular therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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