Lynn Fitzgerald
Compassionate, practical help for families
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lynn
Lynn Fitzgerald is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with relationship and addiction issues. Lynn works in a warm, interactive way and aims to make sessions feel practical and understandable.
She meets people where they are and helps families and partners talk through problems and find clearer paths forward. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationship conflict, intimacy matters, parenting struggles, blended family challenges, and divorce or separation.
Background and approach
Lynn also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She brings steady experience to complicated situations like infidelity, non-monogamous relationships, and communication breakdowns. In sessions she leans on Client-Centered Therapy to center each person's perspective.
She also uses Motivational Interviewing when people are working on change, and Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals. Those approaches help her keep therapy practical and goal-oriented while still honoring each person’s experience. Parents often seek her out when family roles shift or when co-parenting and blended household issues strain daily life.
She talks through communication strategies, boundaries, and steps toward healthier routines. Lynn aims to make therapy a collaborative process that fits each family's values and daily schedule. She practices in Rhode Island as an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist - and offers services in English.
Lynn brings 23 years of experience to family and relationship work and welcomes clients who want straightforward help with parenting and family challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care for families
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each persons perspective and creating a nonjudgmental space to talk. This approach helps family members feel heard and guides conversations about parenting, relationship roles, and identity concerns.Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to explore readiness for change. It helps people who are struggling with addiction, motivation around parenting plans, or making tough life adjustments to identify their own reasons for change.
Lynn treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to goals and preferences, explains options, and together with clients chooses methods that feel helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different strategies and adjust over time.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats allow families and individuals to work on communication skills, parenting plans, or recovery goals from home. The range of options adds flexibility for busy schedules and for people in different places, making regular contact and progress more practical.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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