Amy FitzGerald, LCSW

Amy FitzGerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and midlife questions. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, ADHD, career shifts, and compassion fatigue. People seek her care for family concerns, identity issues, and major life changes.

With 14 years of clinical experience, Amy uses straightforward, practical methods. She combines talk work with body-centered practices to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and then try small changes. Amy values clear goals and meets people where they are on any given day.

Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with mindfulness and somatic techniques. Sessions often include breathing, grounding, or movement practices alongside exploration of thoughts and behaviors. Motivational Interviewing is used to support changes people want to make.

Amy has worked extensively with adoptive and birth parents, adoptees, youth at risk, and students in demanding academic or career paths. She draws on training in yoga, trauma-informed yoga, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Integrative Restoration (iRest) as part of her somatic toolkit.

Therapy is paced to fit each person’s needs, comfort level, and values. Amy frames clients as the experts on their lives and helps translate hopes into concrete steps. She welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Amy often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take small steps toward a life they want. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and acting based on what matters most.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments that change behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress because it breaks big problems into manageable steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy treats this as a team effort and will help you test methods and pick what fits your needs, goals, and comfort level. Techniques can shift over time as priorities change.

If you prefer online sessions, confirm the therapist’s current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also makes it possible to connect across locations, which supports international clients.