Emily Fitzgerald

Emily Fitzgerald is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who helps people handle stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and relationship concerns. She also supports clients with self-esteem, motivation, grief, and eating and body-image issues. Her tone is direct and compassionate, and she seeks to make the first step feel manageable for anyone reaching out.

Emily keeps sessions focused on practical steps and clear goals. She adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach. That can mean practicing new coping skills, tracking thoughts and behaviors, or trying small experiments to test what changes help.

Her work draws on approaches that emphasize mind-body awareness and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior. She aims to create a respectful space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard. Emily encourages pacing that fits each person’s comfort and readiness.

With five years of experience as an LPC, Emily has supported people through life transitions, recovery from substance use concerns, and challenges tied to identity and gender. She names compassion and sensitivity as central to her work and seeks to reduce shame and isolation as part of treatment.

People who contact her can expect straightforward conversation about practical goals, collaborative planning, and tools to use between sessions. She invites people to take the step of asking for help and offers guidance on what a next session might look like.

How Emily uses ACT, CBT, and DBT in online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It often focuses on accepting difficult feelings while choosing behavior that moves life in a desired direction.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It involves noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. It can be useful when strong emotions or impulsivity make daily life harder.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Emily will work with each person to decide which tools to try first based on their goals, day-to-day needs, and what feels most useful. That decision is collaborative and may change as work progresses.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the profile does not list specific options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during breaks or between other obligations. They also let people choose whether to focus on face-to-face conversation or shorter, phone-style check-ins depending on what works best.