Lynn Fitzgerald, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for relationships and recovery
About Lynn
Lynn Fitzgerald is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than two decades of practice in Rhode Island. She focuses on helping people navigate relationship strains, addiction concerns, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Lynn takes a straightforward, calm approach that aims to make difficult conversations easier to manage. Her work covers a wide range of issues including intimacy-related matters, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and ADHD.
She also helps people with blended family dynamics, co-parenting after separation, and communication problems that strain relationships. Lynn has experience supporting people facing infidelity, substance use struggles, and questions about sexuality and non-monogamous relationships.
Lynn’s style is warm and interactive. She centers sessions on the person sitting across from her and adjusts the pace to match each person’s needs.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to what the client wants to change and how to get there. Over 23 years she has developed ways to help people make steady progress.
She uses techniques that encourage motivation, focus on solutions, and build on clients’ strengths. That can mean short-term change plans or deeper work on recurring patterns.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled through the site. Lynn accepts clients from outside the U.S. and works with people who want help with relationship problems, parenting stress, addiction recovery, grief, and life transitions.
Approaches that fit real life and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters to the client. The therapist offers acceptance and feedback so people can name their goals and choose next steps. This approach helps with relationship problems, self-doubt, and moments of change.Motivational Interviewing is a short-term method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It’s useful for addiction concerns, ambivalence about relationship choices, or when someone wants to shift habits but feels stuck.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lynn will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. The plan is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when that feels helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for short check-ins. Live chat or messaging is useful for people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options make it simpler to keep appointments around work, school, or caregiving obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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