Emily Fitzgerald
Focused help for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emily
Emily Fitzgerald is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem. She supports clients dealing with depression, relationship concerns, and life transitions. She also addresses issues related to addictions, LGBT matters, parenting, and coping with grief.
Her approach aims to be practical and respectful for people taking a first step toward support. Emily focuses on clear communication and plans that match each person’s situation.
Background and approach
She listens first and then works with clients to set simple, realistic goals. She uses tools that teach skills for handling strong emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, and committing to meaningful action. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.
With five years of clinical experience, Emily draws on several evidence-based methods. She blends strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. These methods help with mood symptoms, impulsivity, and building better coping habits.
Her work includes attention to issues such as attachment, body image, chronic illness, and ADHD when they affect daily life. Emily pays attention to practical concerns like sleep, eating, and managing stress at work or home. She aims to make progress measurable and relevant to everyday routines.
Emily emphasizes a respectful and compassionate tone in sessions. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s specific needs. Taking the step to ask for help is noted in session as an important part of change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values and small actions that move life in a chosen direction, which can help with stress and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and practical daily challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for strong mood swings, impulsivity, and relationship problems.
Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Emily will work with clients to figure out what methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She often blends techniques so the plan matches the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around parenting, work, or medical needs and allow regular check-ins between calls. The variety of options helps people keep momentum and practice new skills in daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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