Amie Fritz, M.A., LCPC, CCTP
Chief Executive Officer and Clinical Director
Over the past 20 years Amie has sharpened her ability to listen, understand, and quickly formulate a plan to help clients achieve their goals for therapy. She is especially astute in uncovering a person’s limiting beliefs that have interfered with a person moving forward in their life. Amie brings a blend of warmth, insightfulness, compassion, humor, and firm communication as key skills in aiding her client’s transformation. Amie has a keen interest in assisting people work through painful past experiences that have resulted in clients engaging in unhealthy coping skills.
Throughout Amie’s career she has developed skills in assisting clients set boundaries in dysfunctional relationships related to spouses, parents, and partners. She is a certified clinical trauma professional and trained as a level 1 EMDR professional.
Amie utilizes a combination of:
12 step principles
Internal family Systems therapy
Ego state therapy
Somatic experiencing
Experiential therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Amie works with adults, Adolescents 14 years and older, couples, and families navigate their way through:
Addiction
Trauma
Anxiety
Grief and loss
Depression
Life transitions
Young adult college transitions
Codependency
Divorce and parenting
Food Addiction/Eating Disorders
Jan Smith, M.A.
Therapist, Group leader, and Workshop facilitator
Jan’s leadership and coaching are guided by over four decades of experience. Clients who meet with Jan feel comfortable and are impressed with her ability to really listen, be direct, her wisdom and empathy, and fairness and gives hope to the individuals and couples she coaches. Jan has a wealth of knowledge and experience working with chronic/acute trauma, dysfunctional family systems, and problematic adult child/parent relationships. She has extensive training in EMDR, breathwork/Bodywork, Mindfulness, and Storytelling. In addition to her extensive addiction and 12 step training with individuals and couples, Jan incorporates:
Adlerian
Cognitive Behavioral
Experiential
Family Systems Theory
Internal Family Systems
Existential
Imago Couple’s Therapy
Gottman Couple’s Therapy
Humor, stories, and in-session experiences are her stock and trade. She is a grateful cancer survivor who can marry professional and personal experiences to empower cancer patients to process and heal physically and spiritually. Jan works with adults and couples who are dealing with:
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma Addiction
Codependency
Love and sex addiction
Food addiction
Infidelity
Grief and loss
Divorce
Life transitions
Jessica Wolff
Office Administrator
Jessica has been with Fritz Trauma Institute since 2015. She is a gentle person with a high level of commitment to excellence. Her technological savvy and efficiency are matched by her kindness, consistent caring, and responsiveness. Jessica has intricate knowledge of insurance billing and a great capacity to problem solve when billing issues arrive. If she cannot get to the bottom of the issue, she works with clients with the utmost respect and privacy to get billing issues resolved in a timely fashion. Jessica has been instrumental in advancing our practice in offering the best teletherapy possible. She is the grease that keeps the Fritz Trauma Institute’s wheels turning, and we are grateful for her dedication.