About Amy
Amy FitzGerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing depression, grief, trauma and abuse, identity questions related to LGBT and gender, and life changes like career shifts or fertility concerns. Amy practices from North Carolina and brings 14 years of clinical work to each case.
Her style is down-to-earth and goal-focused. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions can include talking, skills practice, and attention to how emotions show up in the body. Amy uses a mix of approaches chosen to fit each person. That can include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns, mindfulness to reduce reactivity, motivational interviewing to support change, and somatic work to address body-based reactions.
She blends these tools rather than following a single formula. She has particular experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment and family of origin concerns, abandonment, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress. Other focuses include ADHD, dissociation, body image, and compassion fatigue.
Amy combines talk-based strategies with movement and breath work when it helps. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Amy will help you identify small, practical steps and check in on progress.
The goal is clearer choices, more manageable emotions, and a stronger sense of direction.
How Amy’s approaches translate to online care
Amy often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and then take steps in that direction, which can be useful when facing grief, identity questions, or life transitions. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, low mood, and stress-related patterns.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice their reactions and reduce emotional reactivity. Mindfulness can be practiced in short exercises during a video call or as brief daily practices between sessions. Finding the right approach is part of the work; Amy collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and guided exercises. Phone sessions or short check-in calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typed communication feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between appointments and fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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