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  • About Vincent Fitzgerald LCSW
  • Anxiety,  Bowen Systems Theory,  Family,  Mental Health

    Relationship Triangles and Defining A Self: Thanksgiving Through the Bowen Theory Lens

    November 26, 2018

    Family dynamics change when one member of a family decides to change

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    Vincent Fitzgerald

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    It's "okay" to Thrive During the Pandemic

    “Thriving” During COVID-19 Is Our Responsibility

    April 24, 2020
    Triangles Defeat Intimacy

    Relationship Triangles and “Small Talk” Deprive Us of Closeness

    July 3, 2019
    Let Our Older Loved Ones Speak

    Allowing Elderly Loved Ones to Express Anxiety During COVID-19

    April 1, 2020
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    Rebuilding the “Male” Model

    October 25, 2018

    There Is Still Work To Be Done To Change the Meaning of "Man"

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    Vincent Fitzgerald

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    Distressing Thoughts

    Exorcising the Negative Voice Within

    July 15, 2019
    Deep Thoughts in Therapy

    Excerpt from the Therapy Room: Stephen and His Anxious Focus

    August 24, 2020

    What Happens When We Try to “Fix” Family or Friends

    October 15, 2018
  • Anxiety,  Mental Health,  Relationships

    What Happens When We Try to “Fix” Family or Friends

    October 15, 2018

    When anxiety drives us to manage someone else's life at the negligence of our own.

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    Vincent Fitzgerald

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    It's "okay" to Thrive During the Pandemic

    “Thriving” During COVID-19 Is Our Responsibility

    April 24, 2020
    Calming During Quarantine

    Five Keys to Calm During COVID-19

    March 17, 2020

    Telling Loved Ones to Fight Through Anxiety or Depression Adds Injury to Insult

    April 4, 2019
  • Anxiety,  Family,  Mental Health,  Relationships

    Grudge Is a Path Toward Anxiety and Regret

    September 17, 2018

    Grudges May Seem Like a Good Idea In the Moment, but Regret Looms.

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    Vincent Fitzgerald

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    What Happens When We Try to “Fix” Family or Friends

    October 15, 2018

    Anxiety Lives in the Space Between Who We Are and Who We Want People to See

    April 23, 2019
    Let Our Older Loved Ones Speak

    Allowing Elderly Loved Ones to Express Anxiety During COVID-19

    April 1, 2020
  • Depression,  Mental Health,  Mental Illness,  Panic/Anxiety

    Differentiating Between Panic Attack and Panic Disorder

    September 10, 2018

    Panic Attack is Frightening. Panic Disorder is Crippling. Both are Beatable.

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    Vincent Fitzgerald

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    How Conversion Therapy Underscores the Conundrum of the Catholic Clinician

    October 1, 2018

    Confronting My Fear Through A Client’s Grief

    September 3, 2018
    Calming During Quarantine

    Five Keys to Calm During COVID-19

    March 17, 2020
  • Depression

    Confronting My Fear Through A Client’s Grief

    September 3, 2018

    Tom slumped in the chair opposite mine. At 62 years old, he was toned, dressed in cycling gear, and appeared at least ten years younger; except for his face. He wore a weathered countenance the most prominent features of which were a frown and red, swollen eyes. Tears are common when I ask clients “what brings us together?”, but it was evident on that day, Tom had cried at home, on his bike, and in my foyer. When he divulged his reason for visiting me, it was even clearer he had been living the same anguished pattern for five months. He had been by crippled by grief since the Winter…

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    Vincent Fitzgerald

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    Telling Loved Ones to Fight Through Anxiety or Depression Adds Injury to Insult

    April 4, 2019

    What A Film Called “Umwelt” Taught Me About the “Incel” Community

    April 24, 2019
    Let Our Older Loved Ones Speak

    Allowing Elderly Loved Ones to Express Anxiety During COVID-19

    April 1, 2020
  • Mental Health

    Welcome to My Risk

    August 30, 2018

    Each of us will review our lives as we age. What we will most regret is that which we leave unfinished.

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    Vincent Fitzgerald

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    November 26, 2018
    Calming During Quarantine

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    March 17, 2020

    Mental Health Writing Is a Tightrope Walk

    May 13, 2019
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