About Lynn
Lynn Fitzgerald is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, and life changes. Lynn offers straightforward guidance in sessions and helps clients build practical steps they can use between meetings.
Her style is warm and interactive. She uses a client-centered approach to tune into each person's needs and preferences. Sessions focus on clear goals and workable strategies rather than jargon or long lectures.
Background and approach
Lynn draws on motivational interviewing to support people making changes around substance use, codependency, or other behaviors that feel stuck. She helps clients identify their own reasons for change and small next steps that feel doable. She also uses solution-focused methods to keep conversations oriented toward progress.
That means finding what already works, amplifying strengths, and setting short-term goals that create momentum. These practical techniques pair well with longer conversations about relationship patterns and family history. Lynn has experience with blended family issues, parenting challenges, communication problems, infidelity, non-monogamous relationships, and concerns related to sexuality and LGBT identities.
She also helps people dealing with trauma, ADHD, and stress tied to life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and Lynn accepts international clients. Her aim is to help each person leave sessions with one or two clear actions to try between meetings.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the client at the center of decision-making and conversation. Lynn listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify their priorities so sessions address what matters most. This approach is useful for anxiety, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes.Motivational Interviewing helps people who feel stuck about making changes. Lynn uses conversational techniques to draw out a person's own reasons for change and to set small, manageable next steps. This method can support work on addiction, codependency, or developing new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lynn works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's needs and goals. Together they check progress and adjust strategies so therapy stays focused and useful.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or days when writing feels more comfortable. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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