About Amy
Amy FitzGerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in North Carolina. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing trauma, grief, career uncertainty, ADHD, and identity concerns such as gender dysphoria.
Amy uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She listens first and helps people set clear, achievable goals. Sessions often combine conversation with body-based practices when that feels useful.
Background and approach
Her aim is to help people manage symptoms and make choices that fit their values. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from North Carolina State University and 14 years of clinical experience. She has done extensive study in yoga and meditation, including trauma-informed yoga, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Integrative Restoration iRest.
That background informs the way she blends mindfulness and somatic tools into talk therapy. Amy often works with people connected to adoption and foster care or with those coping with family of origin issues. She has experience supporting adoptive and birth parents, adoptees, youth at risk, and adults facing demanding academic or career paths.
Those experiences shape how she thinks about attachment, loss, and identity in therapy. In sessions she uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness practices. Therapy is tailored to each person’s needs, comfort level, and values so sessions focus on what matters most to the client.
Amy accepts international clients and offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take action even when feelings are hard, which is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life changes. CBT breaks worries and behaviors into smaller pieces so people can learn practical skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.She also brings mindfulness and somatic awareness into sessions. Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity. Somatic techniques help people notice bodily signals and use movement or grounding strategies to shift stress responses.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time based on what helps. Together they decide which combination of talk, mindfulness, and body-focused work feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for interactive skill work and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when a camera is not desired or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, real-time coaching, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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
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