Michele Fitzgerald, LPCC

Michele Fitzgerald is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 25 years of experience. She began her career working with adolescents in substance abuse treatment in the 1980s and has practiced in settings from Kodiak, Alaska to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Michele sees recovery as part of overall wellness and focuses on building strength through hard times.

She combines practical counseling skills with experience in adoption work, birth parent support, hospital social work, and long-term care settings. Michele listens carefully and helps people turn setbacks into learning moments. Her approach is down-to-earth and paced to each person's needs.

Michele commonly helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and addictions. She also supports concerns like parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, career strain, and relationship or family-origin issues. She brings particular familiarity with adoption and foster care questions, abandonment, attachment challenges, and aging or chronic illness concerns.

Her work includes several well-known therapeutic approaches such as client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and motivational interviewing. Michele uses these methods in practical ways to address thoughts, behaviors, and coping skills rather than as labels in themselves.

She practices in Minnesota and conducts sessions in English. Michele values straightforward conversation, clear goals, and learning from experience. Prospective clients should confirm current session options and scheduling details before booking.

How Michele Uses Therapeutic Approaches Online

Michele uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's experience and priorities. This approach means she follows the client's lead, listens closely, and helps people reflect on what matters most to them.

She also brings cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. CBT offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits for anxiety, depression, or stress.

Michele aims to find the right mix of approaches together with clients. She invites collaboration about goals and methods and adjusts her plan as needs and preferences become clearer.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Many people find online work helpful because it can fit into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. Talk with Michele about what will fit your schedule and comfort so sessions can be arranged to match everyday life.