About Lynn
Lynn Fitzgerald is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing relationship stress, addictions, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Lynn also supports people navigating parenting challenges, intimacy and sexual concerns, and questions related to ADHD.
She provides care to a range of people including those in LGBTQ relationships and those dealing with trauma and abuse. Her style is warm and interactive.
Background and approach
She listens first and uses that listening to shape sessions. Lynn treats each person as the expert on their life and helps them set practical goals they can work toward between sessions. In therapy she uses client-centered methods to create space for people to talk through what matters most.
She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change, especially around addiction and health behaviors. Solution-focused techniques are used to build small, doable steps that move people toward their goals. Her background includes long-term work with couples, people adjusting after separation or divorce, and those in blended family situations.
Lynn has extensive experience with communication problems, codependency, and family of origin issues. She combines active listening with concrete strategies so sessions feel useful and grounded. Sessions can address specific crises or longer-term patterns.
Lynn aims to help people reduce stress, strengthen relationships, and find clearer paths forward. She welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How Lynn’s approach translates to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. In online sessions Lynn creates space for people to talk through what matters most and then shapes sessions around their priorities. This approach helps with relationship issues, parenting concerns, and coping with life changes.Motivational interviewing helps people find personal reasons to change. Online conversations can use questions and reflections to build motivation around addiction recovery, health behavior changes, or tackling difficult habits. Solution-focused therapy centers on small, practical steps. In remote sessions Lynn helps clients identify a next step they can try before the next meeting, which works well when tracking progress between appointments.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lynn will work with each person to decide which combination of listening, motivational work, and solution-focused actions feels most useful. Goals, needs, and personal preferences guide that choice so therapy matches the person rather than a fixed method.
Online sessions offer real flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, interim support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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