Michelle Fitzgerald - Counsellor & Clinical Psychotherapist

26/04/2026

Weekend reset 🤍

A little sunshine, some fresh air, beautiful moments, and the reminder that life is often found in the simplest things.

Weekends don’t have to be big to be meaningful… sometimes slowing down is the best plan of all.

What did your weekend hold for you? ✨ I’d love to hear — joy, rest, family, adventures, or even just surviving the week. Drop it in the comments 🤍

26/04/2026

Lately I’ve been thinking deeply about what it means to step into the next chapter of life with intention 💚🙏🏻

What makes me happy isn’t found in the rush, the noise, or the endless doing… it’s in the simple things. Weekend moments. Family laughter. Fresh air. Quiet cups of coffee. Sun on my face. Connection. Peace.

I’ve been reflecting honestly on emotional and physical wellbeing, and on the subtle ways burnout can creep in when we give so much of ourselves for so long. Sometimes healing doesn’t arrive in one grand moment — it comes in small, steady steps back to self.

So this year, this next chapter, I’m choosing balance. More presence. More rest without guilt. More joy in ordinary moments. More listening to my body and honouring what it needs. 🌺

The next chapter won’t be about doing more… it will be about living well. 🤍

22/04/2026

Absolutely brilliant and an amazing night 🩷🩷🩷 Pink Finss Charity

23/02/2026

The best Naturopaths Hawkesbury Herbs 🌿

31/12/2025

A New Year, Gently… ✨

As I move into this new year, I am consciously practising what I preach with robust intention. I’m deeply committed to improving my health and emotional wellbeing each day, and to working on the next chapter of my life as I approach my 60th year on this earth. I’m learning more about longevity with quality, how to grow older while feeling younger, stronger, and more grounded than I ever have before.

I’ve never really subscribed to New Year’s resolutions.
I’m far more drawn to the idea that every day is a new day, a fresh opportunity to be just 1% better. Small, intentional steps taken consistently truly do add up.

For me, 2026 is about work–life balance, deeper family connection and time together, and creating space for what matters most. It’s also a year of moving into new projects and gradually reducing my face-to-face individual sessions as we welcome new therapists to join our already wonderful team of three. This evolution allows us to better support our clients and community — while also honouring sustainability and care within our work.

For my clients, this year is about integrating what we’ve learned together, taking insights from the therapy room and gently weaving them into everyday life. Not striving for perfection, but choosing to move forward 1% at a time, with intention, compassion, and self-kindness. True self-care isn’t indulgent — it’s thoughtful, consistent, and deeply respectful of your nervous system, your story, and your capacity.

As we step into 2026, we also pause to acknowledge those we have loved and lost, who do not walk forward with us into this new year. We carry them in our hearts and in the ways they continue to shape us, as we move forward with gentleness, gratitude, and love.

Thank you for trusting me, walking alongside us, and being part of this community.
Here’s to a year of connection, integration, and intentional growth — one day, one step, one percent at a time 🤍

24/12/2025

✨ Christmas Message to Our Community ✨

As Christmas approaches, I want to pause and acknowledge that this season can hold many different emotions.

For some, it is a time of connection, love, and togetherness.
For others, it can be a time of deep loneliness, isolation, and grief.

This year, our hearts are especially with the Bondi community, and with all who are carrying loss, shock, and sorrow. At times like this, the importance of kindness, compassion, and looking out for one another becomes so clear. A gentle check-in, a shared cup of tea, a listening ear, or simply being present can make an immeasurable difference.

If this season feels heavy, please know you are not alone. Your feelings make sense. Go gently with yourself. Reach for connection where you can — and if all you can manage is to rest and breathe, that is enough.

Thank you for the trust you place in me and for allowing me to walk alongside you in your healing journeys. It is a privilege I never take lightly.

I will be taking some intentional downtime with my precious family over the coming weeks and will return to rooms on 19 January 2026.

Until then, may you feel held in love, supported by community, and surrounded by moments of kindness — both given and received.

Wishing you peace, connection, and gentle care this Christmas 🤍
CareAndConnection WeAreNotAlone MentalHealthMatters

18/12/2025

I am sitting with deep sadness, shock, anger, and confusion in the wake of the horrific violence at Bondi.
What should be a place of sunshine, community, and safety has been shattered by an act of senseless hate.
I am reflecting deeply — as someone who has long held a strong anti-political stance — because something has shifted in me.
Silence no longer feels neutral.
Silence feels like complicity.
We are first and foremost humans.
We walk together best from a place of love, compassion, and peace — a place where antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Christian sentiment, racism, and all forms of hate simply do not belong.
If there is one word for it all, it is dehumanisation — and it has no place here.
Australia’s culture is one of “stand by your mate.”
It is not one of violence, hatred, or division based on race, culture, or faith.
Our shores have always been welcoming — but let me be clear:
We welcome peace, not guns.
Belonging, not hatred.
Unity, not ideologies that seek to tear communities apart.
Disrespecting and dishonouring our flag — the symbol of a nation built on fairness, mateship, and multicultural respect — is not on.
If you bring this hatred to our shores, understand this: Australians will unite to eradicate it.
What this violence intended to do was divide us.
What it has done instead is unite a nation.
And we will not tolerate this.
To my Jewish friends in Bondi and across Australia — we are heartbroken and devastated with you. You are not alone.
To my Muslim friends — thank you for showing up, standing beside your neighbours, and reminding us of the power of unity and humanity.
To my Catholic, Christian, Jehovah’s Witness, Mormon, and all other faith communities — thank you for being part of the rich, respectful fabric of Australian life.

This is who we are.
This is what we stand for.
And this is where we draw the line.

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Love will always be louder than hate. 🩵 if you wish to comment in support of unity and love you are welcome. Any hate or divisive commentary will be deleted. Thank you.

02/10/2025

Legend of a woman!
Vale Jane Goodall 🩷

Dr. Jane Goodall, the world-renowned chimpanzee researcher, anthropologist, and conservationist, has died at 91.

02/10/2025

💕 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 💕

Behind every diagnosis is a face, a family, a story.

Right now, 𝟏𝟎𝟕 people in the Hawkesbury are walking their breast cancer journey with the support of Pink Finss — 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧.

💗 Breast cancer does not discriminate.
💗 It doesn’t matter how young you are.
💗 It’s not only a women’s disease.

Your life matters. Your family matters.

Please, know your body. Trust your instincts. Book that check-up.

Because early detection doesn’t just save lives — it saves moments, futures, and love.

29/06/2025

https://www.mycause.com.au/p/371967/team-fitz

Thanks for playing a part in Jodie's 15kms for 15 days Challenge! Team Fitz is taking on the challenge of getting out there and hitting the pavement, helping those in our community navigating the jour

29/06/2025

“Karen’s Story”

Day 15 | 15km for 15 Days
Raising money for Pink Finss Cancer Charity 💗

Today’s story is deeply personal — and the reason I became involved with Pink Finss.

In Nov 2014, I got a call I’ll never forget. My dear friend Karen McLean rang to tell me she’d been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer — stage 4. I remember the time, where I was, how my heart shattered.

Karen was just 38. Full of life, the life of every party. A much-loved local beautician with a “girlfriend circle” as big as her personality. She was the kindest, most thoughtful soul — adored by her husband, her son, her family, her countless friends. A fixer of all things, determined, unstoppable.

She’d struggled with her health and was dismissed by her specialist, so I urged her to see my endocrinologist. It led to the scan that found the cancer — devastating news that changed everything.

Kas found Pink Finss and connected me with them — that’s how my journey with this incredible organisation began. Over a decade later, it’s been one of the most profound experiences of my life: supporting women & men with cancer, sometimes walking with them to the end, helping families make sense of the insensible.

Kas was more than my friend — she was a force of love. She died at home on Feb 7, 2019, surrounded by all of us who loved her back. To be loved by Kas was a privilege. So many hearts broke that day.

This 15 days isn’t just a challenge, or a fundraiser. It’s about humans loving humans. It’s about standing together, helping each other through the fight of their lives. Kas showed us how to live, love, and let kindness glow even in the darkness of cancer.

Thank you for following our journey. If you can, please donate a little or a lot — it all helps. 💗
Link in bio or comments.



Stats Day
🦄Shell 8.19km Walk
🦄Glenn 5.1km Walk
🦄Sharon TBA
🦄Lynette km Walk3.01
🦄Elloise 3.01walk
🦄Alex TBA walk
🦄Dallas 7.02km Walk
TOTAL TODAY: 23.32km

28/06/2025

“What do I do now???”

Day 14 | 15km for 15 Days
Raising funds for Pink Finss Cancer Charity 💗

Today’s story is about something most never think of — the chapter after cancer treatment.

For years, life revolves around fighting: surgeries, chemo, immunotherapy, radiation, endless scans, blood tests, consults, pain management. Calendars crammed with appointments, hours mapped by when to eat, rest, take meds — all while still getting kids to school, paying bills, working, cooking dinner.

Then, almost suddenly, it stops.

Appointments slow. Scans become rare. The once-busy calendar is painfully blank. And many are left asking:

“Now what?”

It might seem like the end of treatment brings pure relief. But often, it’s terrifying. If you’re not actively doing something to keep cancer at bay… what if it comes back? Anxiety can surge. Depression can creep in. You’re left in a body you’re not sure you can trust.

That’s why our Pink Finss support groups, activities & ongoing connections matter so much. They help members through this uneasy time — to share fears with others who truly get it, to hear from those further along, to feel not alone in this quiet aftershock.

It’s the gentle, unseen work Pink Finss does — catching people as they step off the treatment treadmill, helping them process, breathe, and find steady ground again.

Please, if you can, donate via the link in bio or comments. Your support keeps us walking beside those still finding their way. 💗

Stats Day 14:
🦄 Shell 5.4km walk
🦄 Glenn 5.2km walk
🦄 Sharon TBA
🦄 Lynette 6.5km walk
🦄 Elloise 3.22km walk
🦄 Alex TBA
🦄 Dallas 5.34km walk
TOTAL TODAY: 25.66km