About Michele
Michele Fitzgerald brings 25 years of counseling experience to her work in Minnesota. She holds an LPCC and began her career in the 1980s working with adolescents in substance abuse treatment. Michele draws on decades of practice across settings to help people facing addiction, mood challenges, grief, and life transitions.
She has worked in varied places including Kodiak, Alaska and Minneapolis. Her background also includes adoption and birth parent counseling, hospital social work, and long-term care support.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her practical, down-to-earth approach to care. Michele sees recovery as the same thing as wellness. She believes people grow stronger through hard times.
In sessions she listens closely, names patterns, and helps clients turn mistakes into learning moments. Her style is straightforward and warm. Michele uses plain language and clear tools so people can try things between meetings.
She draws on client-centered methods plus skills-based approaches when useful to manage anxiety, depression, or addiction concerns. Clients who appreciate a steady, experienced guide may find her approach helpful. Michele aims to match techniques to each person’s situation, focusing on practical steps and real-world coping.
She prefers short, focused goals and honest conversation about progress and setbacks.
Approaches and online care that meet you where you are
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting, respectful relationship. It helps when someone needs space to talk and be heard before trying new strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. If one approach isn't working, adjustments are made so treatment stays useful and personally meaningful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging help with brief updates, skill practice, and support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counseling into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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- 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