Emily Fitzgerald
Hopeful, practical support for life challenges
LPC New Jersey
- Experience
- 5 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Emily
Emily Fitzgerald is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges related to identity and life transitions.
Background and approach
She works with clients on a broad range of issues including self-esteem, career struggles, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting, mood disorders, and attention-related concerns. Her practice also addresses more specific areas such as body image, attachment issues, chronic illness, and forgiveness.
Her approach blends evidence-informed methods to fit each client's needs, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when appropriate. Emily emphasizes collaborative treatment planning and adapts conversations and strategies to each person’s unique circumstances.
With five years of professional experience, she aims to create a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate space for exploration and growth. Emily encourages those taking the step toward support and frames the therapeutic process as partnership-oriented work focused on practical coping skills, clearer values and goals, and sustainable behavior change.
She invites prospective clients to begin by completing a brief matching process and scheduling sessions according to availability.
How Emily's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools for anxiety, depression, and stress-related symptoms. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and build meaningful action while learning to accept difficult internal experiences rather than battling them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness when strong emotions or impulsivity get in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Emily treats it as a collaboration. She will work with each client to explore goals, preferences, and the problems they want to address, then adapt techniques from CBT, ACT, or DBT to fit those priorities rather than prescribing a single method from the outset.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life changes. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver focused skills training, values work, and behavioral experiments in ways that suit different communication styles and daily routines.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Licensed
New Jersey
Languages
English