About Michele
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 places such as Kodiak, Alaska and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Michele sees recovery as part of overall wellness and looks for strengths that emerge through hard times.
She listens closely and treats mistakes as chances to learn and grow. Her background includes substance abuse and mental health counseling, adoption and birth parent counseling, hospital social work, and long-term care work.
Background and approach
Those varied roles shaped a practical approach to common life problems like stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addiction. Michele also has experience with issues tied to family of origin, attachment, and adoption and foster care. She uses familiar, down-to-earth methods in sessions.
Michele draws from client-centered work to follow each person’s pace, and she includes cognitive behavioral strategies to tackle unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also incorporates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR where they fit a person’s situation. Michele works with concerns such as parenting strain, sleep and eating issues, anger, self-esteem, career shifts, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people facing chronic illness, codependency, recovery from substance use, and trauma or abuse. Her practice is based in Minnesota and she conducts sessions in English. Practical details are straightforward.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging and operate through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding where a person is coming from. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what is said, and helps people find their own solutions to problems like anxiety or self-esteem concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and small homework tasks to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, or sleep and eating disturbances.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It can help with anger, relationship stress, and coping when life feels overwhelming.
Figuring out the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. That choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support between sessions or when typed conversation feels easier. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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