Michele Fitzgerald, LPCC

Michele Fitzgerald brings a long and varied background in behavioral health to her work, beginning her career with adolescents in substance abuse treatment in the 1980s and later serving in settings as different as Kodiak, Alaska and Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has extended her practice into adoption and birth parent counseling, as well as social work roles in both hospital and long-term care environments, combining experience in substance abuse and mental health counseling with a broad clinical perspective. Michele values the evolution of alcohol and drug counseling alongside behavioral health, and she views recovery as synonymous with overall wellness. She emphasizes the development of strength through adversity and approaches counseling with a stance of listening first, seeing mistakes as opportunities for learning and growth. Michele holds an LPCC, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and she applies that training when supporting clients through issues such as stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, self esteem, career questions, coping with life changes, and ADHD. She has also focused work on abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, chronic pain and illness, codependency, communication and control problems, disaster-related coping, divorce and separation, drug and alcohol addiction, eating and food-related issues, emptiness, and family of origin matters.

Michele aims to be a strong listener and a collaborative partner in recovery and personal growth. She has historically maintained availability on Mondays and Thursdays from 4:00 to 8:00 pm where that scheduling fit clients' needs.