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Welcome

Let’s Create Your Story of Empowerment

Welcome to Fitz King Therapy located in Louisville, Kentucky. We strive to help people restore hope in their own ability to heal, to live a life in line with their values and to give themselves permission to be human along the way.

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Meet Molly

Hi, I’m Molly Fitz King. I am a therapist based in Louisville, Kentucky, with clinical experience in inpatient, outpatient and community health settings.

I specialize in treating trauma and mood disorders as well as people with Autism.

As a clinician, it’s really important to me that I am never dictating your healing but rather with you in a process of getting closer and closer to your core and how you want to show up in the world.

Serving Greater Louisville with Compassionate Therapy

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Specializations:

Sustainable changes are made through small acts over time. 

I primarily practice dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and sensory modulation. Treating people with autism is one of my specialties along with treating trauma and mood disorders.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

This method of therapy helps individuals struggling with obsessive thinking, and emotional dysregulation. The first few skills you learn help you use the body to calm the mind. Once you are less activated you begin to look at strategies to improve communication in relationships and ways to insert mindfulness techniques into your daily life that are a good fit for you. When we are still highly activated it can be hard to nail down realistic mindfulness skills. This is why trial and error in session are so important. I do not currently offer DBT group therapy and frequently partner with other providers if clients are in need of this additional service. This method was created for individuals struggling with significant mood swings but the main skill, wise mind, can help people with Autism soften black and white thinking and find nuance in complex situations.

Sensory Modulation

This method uses vision, hearing, scent, taste, proprioception, interoception, vestibular, and exteroception. We start with an overview of preferences and dislikes in each of these sensory areas and look at ways to engage each system multiple times per day. An outside glance at this method could look overwhelming due to the large number of listed senses, however practice makes engaging with each area of healing pretty intuitive over time. My first exposure to this was in 2011 in the School for Autism where I watched how much peace the children got once they were able to enter the sensory room multiple times per day as part of their sensory modulation.

Art Therapy

I have a second license in Art Therapy and love to use opportunities to unite the verbal with the visual. I frequently expand art into enactment, music, dance, and writing so there is no limitation held on artistic expression. Art therapy helps clients stop attempting to think through all their problems and allows them space to slow down, feel, and accept. Creating in this setting is focused only on the process and not on any measurement of quality or talent. Some of the art we create are grief maps, barrier drawings, and all fine shelters.

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An important component of my work as a therapist is that I do not subscribe to the therapist client hierarchy. Humans have an inherent value regardless of where they are mentally, physically, and emotionally. I’ve worked with many individuals who were scared to go to therapy for fear of being judged because they know their choices have been problematic.

This is a space where people can find compassionate accountability and where they are seen as a whole and not as a product of one specific struggle. It is important to me to ask clients what is going well or what they currently like about their life or what they have built when I meet them for the first time. I never want anybody to feel like they are being defined by one part of their story. - Molly Fitz King

Frequently Asked Questions

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Advocacy Work

Together, we can work towards building a community where mental health is prioritized, understood, and supported.

As a therapist, being an advocate for mental health in our community is important to me. Every individual deserves access to resources and support for their mental well-being. By actively promoting mental health awareness and destigmatizing seeking help, we can create a more supportive and understanding environment for everyone.

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Meet Scribbles

Scribbles is in training to become a certified therapy dog who will eventually work in our office one day per week. He got his name because - in art therapy - scribbling is very important. It is the first mark making we engage in as children it reminds us that no matter what age we are, art can be temporary and messy.

Get in Touch

Email
fitz.king.therapy@gmail.com

Phone
(502) 252-1285

Address

8911 Greeneway Commons Place

Louisville, Kentucky 40220

Parking and Waiting Area Information

  • "Working with Molly at Molly Fitz King Therapy has changed my life. She has helped me understand my needs and develop tools to face the hardships I was experiencing within a few sessions. I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder as an adult, and Molly’s counseling has made me feel supported, empowered and hopeful for the future. I cannot recommend Molly at Fitz King Therapy enough and highly encourage anyone struggling to reach out to them for help. "

    -FitzKing Therapy Client

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