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 continued in behavioral health and addiction work since then. Her background includes practice in Kodiak, Alaska, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She has worked in substance abuse and mental health counseling, adoption and birth parent counseling, hospital social work, and long-term care settings.
How Michele works
This wide experience shapes a practical, seasoned approach. Michele sees recovery as part of overall wellness. She believes strength can grow from hardship and treats setbacks as chances to learn.
In sessions she listens closely and helps people reflect on what led to their current struggles. Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, LGBT concerns, relationship and family issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, coping with life changes, and ADHD.
She also works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment and family of origin topics, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication and control problems, and substance use concerns. Michele uses a range of approaches including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and motivational interviewing.
She aims to match methods to what each person needs and prefers.
Michele lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Michele works with
The areas below are the ones Michele selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what they hear, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach suits people who want empathy and guidance without prescriptive steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and to build healthier routines, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. It can be useful for intense emotions and relationship challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Michele will work together with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying a technique and adjusting it based on how it feels and what helps.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and text let people check in between sessions or communicate without being on camera. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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