

Life can feel overwhelming. You don’t have to navigate it alone.
Counseling is a therapeutic space for mental health, where you can explore challenges, heal, and grow.
Consulting & Life Coaching is a space to talk through life decisions, work challenges, or personal goals. Meet once for clarity or as often as you need.

Welcome to a space where your brain is celebrated. Whether you think in colors, patterns, tangents, or deep dives, I love helping neurodivergent minds find balance, self-understanding, and confidence. Therapy with me is collaborative, creative, and built around your way of thinking.
I work especially well with clients who see and experie
Welcome to a space where your brain is celebrated. Whether you think in colors, patterns, tangents, or deep dives, I love helping neurodivergent minds find balance, self-understanding, and confidence. Therapy with me is collaborative, creative, and built around your way of thinking.
I work especially well with clients who see and experience the world a little differently ~ ADHD brains, autistic thinkers, gifted daydreamers, high intelligence, deep feelers, and anyone who’s been told they’re “too much” or “not enough.” My approach is flexible, affirming, and a little bit outside the box ~ just like the minds I work with.
What is neurodivergence?
Neurodivergency refers to the natural differences in how people think, learn, and process information. It includes a wide range of brain types, such as those with ADHD, Autism, dyslexia, OCD, or other cognitive variations. Instead of viewing these differences as problems to be fixed, the neurodiversity perspective recognizes them as unique ways of experiencing and interacting with the world. In short, being neurodivergent simply means your brain works differently ~ and that difference can bring its own strengths, insights, and creativity.

In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, emotional resilience is not a luxury ~ it’s a necessity. I offer Emotional Strength Coaching is designed to help individuals reclaim their inner power, rise above emotional fatigue, and align their life with what matters most.
With years of experience in mental health, personal development, be
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, emotional resilience is not a luxury ~ it’s a necessity. I offer Emotional Strength Coaching is designed to help individuals reclaim their inner power, rise above emotional fatigue, and align their life with what matters most.
With years of experience in mental health, personal development, being a professor, and transformational coaching, I offer compassionate, science-backed guidance to help you:
Emotional strength is the ability to stay grounded in the face of life’s challenges, to feel deeply without losing direction, and to move forward with clarity—even when the path is uncertain. It’s not about avoiding struggle—it’s about growing through it.
We work together to empower you to build that strength from the inside out, so you can show up in your relationships, work, and daily life with integrity, presence, and peace.
Your best life isn’t a fantasy ~ it’s a practice. It's about aligning your choices with your values, understanding your emotions rather than fearing them, and creating a life that feels rich, grounded, and true to you.
Through one-on-one coaching, counseling, workshops, and personalized emotional resilience plans, you will have the tools to help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Life often brings questions that logic alone can’t answer. You may find yourself asking: Who am I now? What truly matters? Is there more to life than this? Through spiritual life coaching, I can help you navigate these questions with compassion, clarity, and courage.
I offer a space for deep self-exploration and healing. My unique approac
Life often brings questions that logic alone can’t answer. You may find yourself asking: Who am I now? What truly matters? Is there more to life than this? Through spiritual life coaching, I can help you navigate these questions with compassion, clarity, and courage.
I offer a space for deep self-exploration and healing. My unique approach combines guided meditation, mindful reflection, and soul-centered coaching to help you:
True empowerment doesn’t come from control ~ it comes from connection.
I gently guide you through this inward journey, helping you find grounding in your values, alignment in your actions, and freedom from limiting narratives.
You’ll also learn accessible mindfulness and meditation practices designed to calm the nervous system, open the heart, and quiet the noise of the world so you can hear the wisdom within.
The option of spiritual life coaching is different in therapy as it is as little or as much as you need. Come in one time or multiple sessions where we explore life moving forward in your best steps.

We have gone from way too busy trying to get to work and then get home from work only to need to be somewhere else. This lifestyle keeps us in a high cortisol level where we do not even realize how our body will react when we stop. It is like when you were little and you spun around really fast with your arms out and then stopped - you felt dizzy. The same with being overly busy, when you stop, you are very tired and may even feel depressed for a few days. Add in the uncertainty of things and the transition to working at home (or loss of job) it is not surprise we are feeling very tired. Take a nap and don't be mad at it, this is a time to rest and reassess. This can be a time of renewal where we reemerge stronger, better, and healthier. Look at this time as a "reboot". Also....we are given a few weeks where we can organize and clean our hamster holes;) - Dr. Michele Fry

It is an interesting phenomena that people with constant anxiety during "normal times" tend to appear less stressed or calm during times of crisis. This is due to the environment meeting them emotionally/chaos/high anxiety where they live daily. They look around and function well (appeared calmness) with an expression of *Meh because this is where they always function. They look around and think,"Welcome to the Thuderdome of our daily feelings". If they were waiting for the other shoe to drop, they now know what that shoe is and that is a little bit relieving because the intangible worry has been met with a tangible answer. While doing better in crisis might appear to be a good thing, it is not good for long term health when the crisis is over. -Dr. Michele Fry

Be present in your right now and what you are doing right now, that is all that is required of you. Take a deep breath and only think about what you need to do right now. Stress often times is a compilation of ALL the things we need to do or all the things we want. They all flood our mind at once causing panic. Ground yourself with thinking about what is happening right now and the only thing I need to do, in this moment, is what is before me. That's it. Practice taking a deep breath and not thinking about the "next thing".
Traveling to the future will cause anxiety.
Traveling to the past will "many times" cause anger.
Of course, we need to plan for the future and organize our time but through that organization we can breath and be present knowing everything has its place.
We need to remember the past and process the past but it is not our now or our future unless we let it.Taking this time to better understand our mindset and how our emotions work is an opportunity to emerge stronger and better. - Dr. Michele Fry
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom
First, fear disengages our brains from thinking and does not have purpose in perceived danger. We need to think. I always tell my students and clients, "Don't let your thoughts become an emotion you don't want to have". Our emotions are 100% rooted in out thoughts. The good news is that if we cannot control our circumstances, we can control our thoughts. However, it does go through perception and our personal perceptions are created by what we have experienced and learned in our lives. Your perceptions might be stuck on "negative" and your perceptions need to be adjusted. To change your emotions you need to change your mindset, you need to adjust your perspective and change your thoughts. Try it...and be intentional about what you want to think about. It may feel weird at first but make yourself change your thoughts and perspective and see if your emotions do not change. If it is hard to do, make a list of the things you want to think about (positive) and start there. We do not ignore what is happening in our lives and if we cannot change the circumstances we can change how we feel about them. Our emotions are contagious and in these close quarters of confinement, spread the good stuff! - Dr. Michele Fry

Stress can be productive and stress can be destructive. Your choice. Our bodies respond to stress and perceived stress the same way. This means if you think something is dangerous then your body creates the chemicals, such as cortisol, in response to that fear (real or perceived).
Our perceptions and time spent thinking on a situation trains our brain (cortical thickening) to automatically have an emotion over the circumstance. If we are escalated (angry, afraid, worried), our brains do not think as well and they have a hard time with reason.
You have created a default in your brain to a positive or negative that you have created through thickening that area of your brain's response. You can change this, but like working out from out of shape to in shape, it takes time, commitment, and hard work. Here is the first simple step.....
The Chocolate brownie effect: If I tell you not to think about chocolate brownies, you automatically have a picture of what chocolate brownies look like to you and an emotion is attached of "Yum" or "Yuck" based upon your experience with chocolate brownies.
The Challenge: Since your brain works in pictures and is constantly thinking....choose what you want to think on. If you need to change your perception, then change the picture. Worry can go from fearful thoughts (pictures) to peaceful thoughts (pictures). Try it. Choose a few pictures that make you feel at peace and make yourself see that picture in your mind when you are afraid. Did your thought change? Did your emotion change? You brain is constantly thinking, be in charge of what it is deciding to think about.
I chose the picture to the right for when my kiddos are acting "high energy". I could be frustrated or I could think "Party time!". One will form connection and one will drive disconnection. I choose connection....even if it means my work needs to wait...it will be there later and it doesn't care when I give it attention. My kiddos do.
How we think makes us who we are.
-Dr. Michele Fry

As we are all in close quarters the next few days, weeks, and possible months, we could get annoyed and have regrets on how we respond. If a room is messy or a dish is in the sink, let it go. You have the power to help people feel good or feel badly. That sets the tone for the next series of interactions. Here is the idea to help adjust our mindset:
If it will not matter in 5 seconds - let it go.
If it will not matter in 5 minutes - let it go.
If it will not matter in 5 days - let it go.
If it will not matter in 5 months - possibly let it go.
If it will not matter in five years - consider if you need to invest in a solution.
Anything that does not matter in less than 5 months - let it go.
We will not remember the mess but we will remember how we felt during our time together. Those are the memory stamps, the feelings. Create the feelings you want people to remember.

Support your team with practical tools for stress management, communication, and emotional well-being. This workshop offers clear strategies employees can use immediately to improve resilience, strengthen work relationships, and build a healthier, more supportive workplace culture.
A stronger team starts with stronger mental health.
This
Support your team with practical tools for stress management, communication, and emotional well-being. This workshop offers clear strategies employees can use immediately to improve resilience, strengthen work relationships, and build a healthier, more supportive workplace culture.
A stronger team starts with stronger mental health.
This workshop is designed to help organizations cultivate a culture where employees feel supported, valued, and equipped to navigate stress and change with resilience.
Contact me if you are interested in a one hour or three hour virtual or in person workshop or training.

Being present in your life and not time traveling is key to being at peace regardless of circumstances. I can help you have power over your moments through understanding that our brains work in predictions to keep us safe. If we have learned through experience that the world is an unsafe place, it is hard to rest and be in the moment.
Being present in your life and not time traveling is key to being at peace regardless of circumstances. I can help you have power over your moments through understanding that our brains work in predictions to keep us safe. If we have learned through experience that the world is an unsafe place, it is hard to rest and be in the moment. You cannot enjoy the forest and relax if there is the possibility of a bear jumping out. Life's "bears" need to be identified and understood.
Being at peace in the moment and being present in your thoughts and life are essential to health.
This can be the start of any get together where a group wants to learn how to have tools that are useful in being your mind to the present.

Come with curiosity. Leave with clarity
These small-group experiences blend reflective coaching practices with intuitive symbolism to help you deepen self-awareness and move forward with confidence.
Each group offers structured guidance, meaningful dialogue, and insight-based tools that inspire personal clarity, emotional balance, and p
Come with curiosity. Leave with clarity
These small-group experiences blend reflective coaching practices with intuitive symbolism to help you deepen self-awareness and move forward with confidence.
Each group offers structured guidance, meaningful dialogue, and insight-based tools that inspire personal clarity, emotional balance, and purposeful action.
Within a supportive group environment, you’ll explore your values, goals, and inner patterns ~ gaining new perspectives that empower you to make aligned decisions and step into your next chapter with intention.
Contact me if you want to host a circle with a group of friends or are interested in attending a group.
Technologies such as neuromodulation, brain-computer interfacing, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI), and Human-Robot Integration (H+) are areas that Dr. Fry is able to give information seminars. Technology has the potential to change human growth and development. It is vital to be informed and to approach technology with critical thinking. It is important to look at technology through a perspective of possible positive change while also asking important challenging questions about progressions. Dr. Fry approaches the topic of technology through a post-phenomenological lens.
Session, consulting, workshops, and coaching are private pay. $200 per 60-minute sessions.
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