About Emily
Emily Fitzgerald is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for relationship strain, low self-esteem, career worries, and mood concerns. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
She uses simple, goal-focused methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Sessions are conversational and structured. She works with clients to build skills for coping, improving mood, and managing difficult thoughts and urges.
Background and approach
Emily tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation. She listens for what matters most and then helps set small, achievable steps. People can expect tools they can try between sessions and feedback about what is or isn’t working.
With five years of experience as an LPC in New Jersey, Emily combines practical techniques with a respectful, empathetic style. She often helps people facing grief, trauma, addictions, or life transitions who want straightforward strategies. She supports concerns including sleep and eating problems, ADHD, anger, and issues tied to body image or identity.
Emily also offers coaching-style guidance for career and life-purpose questions. Her work aims to make everyday tasks feel more manageable and to increase clarity about next steps.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can focus on building small, meaningful habits and practicing acceptance skills between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches step-by-step techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. This approach works well for anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns in remote sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and reducing impulsive behavior; those skills are easy to review and practice in between online meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That decision can change over time as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for quick check-ins, short coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep working on skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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