Jeffrey Fulmer
Compassionate counselor for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Fulmer, LCSW, focuses on helping parents and individuals facing family and parenting challenges find steadier footing during hard times. He emphasizes listening first and offers warm, nonjudgmental support to people carrying stress, grief, trauma, addiction issues, or big life changes. His manner is direct and affirming while staying rooted in practical steps toward relief.
Jeffrey draws on more than 23 years in social work, including 15 years providing clinical counseling for mental health and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
He has worked in settings that include college counseling, adoption agency leadership, and foster care supervision. Those roles shaped his approach to family of origin problems, fatherhood issues, and adoption or foster care concerns. His work reflects a client-centered stance with cognitive behavioral techniques.
Sessions emphasize strengths, steady encouragement, and tracking small changes that add up. He also brings experience with trauma, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and relationship difficulties when they affect family life and parenting. Jeffrey shares from lived experience with recovery from substance abuse, which informs his empathy for people facing addiction and codependency.
He also teaches an online chemical dependency class at a nationally recognized university, adding a teaching perspective to his clinical work. Clients can expect a therapist who listens carefully, affirms progress, and helps translate goals into doable steps. He practices in Virginia and offers work in English, and accepts international clients.
To begin, use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.
How his approaches shape online therapy
Jeffrey commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors while keeping the person’s goals central. Client-centered work focuses on listening, validation, and meeting clients where they are, which can help with parenting stress and family conflict. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills for anxiety, depression, and anger management.Finding the right approach is a team effort. He will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s needs and goals, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to parenting struggles, addiction recovery, grief, or other family-related concerns.
Practical benefits of online sessions can include easier scheduling and fitting meetings around work or caregiving, shorter check-ins when time is tight, and options that reduce travel time. Because session formats are not listed here, please confirm the available online or in-person session types before booking. The focus is on making therapy fit everyday life while using focused, goal-oriented techniques to move forward.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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