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Mari Fullmer, LMFT

Helping people turn sensitivity into strength

14 years in practice · based in California · sessions in English · online sessions

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About Mari

Mari Fullmer is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. She works with adults and young adults who want to build confidence, improve motivation, and feel more grounded in daily life. Mari believes clients know their own story and already have strengths to draw on.

Her role is to help people reconnect with those strengths and find practical ways to cope.

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Background and approach

She emphasizes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach that combines insight with clear actions. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings. Mari mixes talking, skill practice, and gentle reflection so clients leave with tangible tools.

She pays attention to how emotions, relationships, and life purpose connect to overall wellbeing. Her toolkit includes cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, and mindfulness practices. Those methods are used to address stress, body image concerns, caregiver strain, and communication problems, among other issues.

Mari also supports people through pregnancy and childbirth transitions, grief and loss, and questions about self-love and life direction. She frames sensitivity as a strength and helps clients use it as a resource. Mari aims to be an ally who offers warmth, practical suggestions, and a steady presence.

How Mari’s approaches fit online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, consistent actions toward them while learning to relate differently to unwanted thoughts. It can help with anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connection styles affect current bonds; it can be useful for communication problems and relationship stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Sessions may blend several approaches so the plan changes as progress is made and new needs appear.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and carry out guided exercises together. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing contact, quick problem-solving, and reflection between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week while still using evidence-informed techniques like ACT and attachment-based ideas.
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Questions people ask

What concerns does Mari commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, self esteem struggles, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, communication, and women’s concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Mari blends insight with action, offering skills to use between sessions while exploring what matters to the client. The work is collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs and goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 14 years of professional practice as a therapist working with adults and young adults on a range of emotional and life challenges.
What are her professional credentials and location?
She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with California and Michigan licensure noted as CA LMFT and MI LMFT, and she practices from California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are provided to clients within the therapist’s licensed jurisdictions.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How do session costs and billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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Experience
14 years
Licensed
California, Michigan
Languages
English

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