About Amy
Amy FitzGerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in North Carolina. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship concerns, and complicated grief. She also supports people coping with trauma, ADHD, questions about identity, and career or life transitions.
Amy uses both talk-based and body-centered approaches. She blends somatic work with mindfulness and cognitive tools so people can notice how thoughts and sensations connect. Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Amy treats each person as the expert on their life and focuses on small, usable steps toward goals. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from North Carolina State University and 14 years of clinical experience. That experience includes work with adoptive and birth parents, adoptees, and young people facing high-pressure academic or career paths.
Amy has also studied yoga, meditation, trauma-informed yoga, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Integrative Restoration iRest. Typical sessions mix conversation, skill practice, and gentle body-based techniques when useful. Amy helps people build coping skills, increase emotional awareness, and find ways to reduce physical tension linked to stress.
Progress often comes from trying small changes between sessions. People who choose Amy often want clear goals and practical tools alongside compassionate listening. She adapts methods to values and comfort level, providing a steady, collaborative space to work through difficult feelings and life challenges.
How somatic and mindful approaches work online
Amy often combines Somatic Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Somatic work helps people notice bodily sensations and learn ways to ease physical tension that shows up with stress or trauma. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and small committed actions to move toward a meaningful life when emotions feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful habits.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods fit best based on goals, comfort, and preferences. That collaborative decision can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to use tools between meetings. Many people find that combining live conversations with short messaging or chat practices helps keep momentum between sessions.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Amy help with?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What is her clinical background?
Which credentials and region apply?
In which languages are sessions offered?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin therapy with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English