Sonya Fuller, LISW

Sonya Fuller is an Ohio-based Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 28 years of experience. She invites people to take the first step toward change and offers steady support while they navigate difficult life moments. Sonya emphasizes a warm, respectful approach that helps people feel heard and valued in sessions.

She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Cleveland State University and a Bachelor degree from Bowling Green State University. Early in her career she worked as a community social worker and later directed a women and children’s shelter, doing crisis intervention, case management, and life coaching. Those roles added experience in group work, advocacy, and coordinating services.

Sonya has also worked as a clinical social worker in hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In those settings she helped people adjust after sudden life changes that brought on depression and anxiety. More recently she has served as a hospice social worker, offering grief support and counseling around end-of-life transitions.

Her counseling style is intentionally warm and engaging. She primarily uses a client-centered approach that focuses on empathy and unconditional positive regard. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and psychodynamic ideas to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs.

Sonya works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family issues, addiction, trauma, caregiver stress, and aging and geriatric issues. If someone is ready to make changes, she offers partnership and practical guidance to move forward.

How Sonya’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience, with the therapist offering empathy, acceptance, and support while the client leads the pace and focus. This helps with issues like grief, relationship strain, and caregiver stress by validating feelings and building a trusting conversation.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and testing practical changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping after sudden life changes.

Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that develop over time and how past relationships affect current feelings. It can help people understand deeper sources of recurring problems such as attachment, abandonment, or long-standing relationship patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session logistics and specific online formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time for those balancing caregiving or health-related constraints.