Rick Fulton
Compassionate online counselor with practical tools
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rick
Rick Fulton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three decades of experience. He practices from a cognitive behavioral orientation and blends practical skills with compassionate support. He offers online-only appointments and keeps regular hours during weekdays and Saturdays for scheduled sessions.
He holds a master’s degree in counseling from the University of North Texas in Denton and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. His practice in Texas addresses many concerns, including stress, anxiety, addictions, mood struggles, relationship and family issues, trauma, and grief.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and usable tools. He uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify patterns and try new responses. Motivational interviewing is part of his approach for people facing change or recovery challenges.
He also incorporates mindfulness and narrative methods when they fit a person’s needs. He can provide Christian counseling on request, and his practice remains welcoming regardless of spiritual beliefs. Practical policies are part of his work style: messages after 8pm are answered the next morning, and he asks for 24 hours notice for missed live chat or video appointments.
He aims to reply to messages within 24 hours and prefers scheduled sessions rather than on-demand counseling.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Rick uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT focuses on concrete steps you can practice between sessions and often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.He also uses motivational interviewing to support people facing change. This method helps people clarify their own reasons for change and builds momentum without pressure, which can be useful for addiction, lifestyle shifts, and stages of change.
Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. He will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods to fit each person’s needs. That shared decision-making helps guide which techniques to prioritize over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and for those who prefer to meet from home. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that works best. These options make it easier to keep appointments, follow up between sessions, and access consistent care from his Texas practice.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Rick
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- Stop at any point