Sonya Fuller
Helping parents face stress with steady support
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sonya
Sonya Fuller is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 28 years of experience. She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Cleveland State University and builds on a long career in community and clinical settings. Sonya writes and speaks plainly, and she aims to make it easier for a worried parent to take the next step toward change.
She spent the early part of her career at the Salvation Army, providing crisis intervention, case management, life coaching, and directing a women and children’s shelter.
Background and approach
That work included group facilitation, advocacy, and coordinating services for people in difficult situations. Later she moved into hospital and rehabilitation settings, helping people adjust after sudden health events that brought on depression or anxiety. Currently she works in hospice social work, offering grief support and family counseling around the time of a patient’s transition.
That role shaped her approach to talking about loss, caregiving stress, and end-of-life concerns. Sonya says the work feels like a gift and that it guides how she responds to people who are hurting. Her counseling style is warm and direct.
She centers the person in the room and aims to help them feel heard and respected. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps to manage stress, mood, relationships, parenting, addiction-related concerns, and other life changes. Sonya primarily uses Client-Centered Therapy and also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy.
She explains each approach in everyday terms and adapts conversations and plans to fit a person’s situation and goals. She practices in Ohio and sees people in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Sonya uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive space where the person’s experience guides the work. That approach focuses on empathy, acceptance, and making sure someone feels heard while they figure out what they want to change.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT helps break down problems into manageable steps and teaches tools to handle anxiety, sleeping troubles, low mood, and stress-related patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to test methods, match them to goals, and adjust plans as needs change. The conversation and plan are shaped together rather than fixed up front.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. People can meet by video calls for a more traditional session, use phone sessions when video isn’t possible, or work through live chat and text messaging for shorter check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family schedule and to stay connected during transitions or caregiving responsibilities.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Sonya
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point