About Sonya
Sonya Fuller is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio with 28 years of experience in social work and clinical settings. She welcomes people who are facing hard transitions and wants to help them find clearer footing. Sonya emphasizes practical, human conversations and steady support during difficult times.
She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Cleveland State University and began her career after receiving a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University.
Background and approach
Early roles included community social work and directing a women and children’s shelter, where she did crisis intervention, case management, life coaching, and group work. Those years shaped her ability to coordinate services and advocate for people in need. Later she provided counseling and case management in acute hospital and rehabilitation settings.
There she helped people adapt after sudden health events that brought anxiety or depression and required plans for a new normal. In her current role as a hospice social worker she offers grief support and counseling around end-of-life transitions. Sonya’s counseling style is warm and engaging.
She focuses on listening, showing empathy, and making people feel heard. Sessions are practical and tailored to each person’s situation rather than following a one-size-fits-all script. Her main methods include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and psychodynamic perspectives.
She adapts those approaches to match individual needs and goals. If someone is ready to change, she partners with them to map realistic next steps.
How Sonya’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting each person’s own pace of change. It helps when someone needs a calm space to be heard and to make choices about next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers simple strategies to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful patterns. Psychodynamic therapy pays attention to past patterns and relationships to help understand current reactions and long-standing difficulties.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face when talking and seeing one another is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and a way to stay connected when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving duties, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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