Sonya Fuller

Sonya Fuller is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) in Ohio with 28 years of experience. She welcomes people who are facing big life shifts and offers steady support while they work toward change. Sonya presents a calm, warm presence and aims to make each person feel heard and respected from the first session.

She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Cleveland State University and began her career after a Bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University. Early roles included community social work and leadership at a women and children’s shelter, where she led crisis intervention, case management, life coaching, group work, and advocacy.

Later work moved into clinical social work in hospital and rehabilitation settings. There she helped people cope with sudden, life-changing events such as medical crises that brought new anxiety or depression and required practical planning for adjustment.

More recently she has worked as a hospice social worker, providing grief support and counseling around transitions. That role brought experience in marital and family conversations before and after a loved one’s death, and reinforced her focus on compassion and practical supports.

In sessions she uses a client-centered stance and adapts other methods as needed. Conversations are tailored to the person’s goals, with straightforward tools to manage stress, anger, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, and other challenges. She encourages collaborative planning and realistic steps toward change.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and accepting the person’s experience. It helps people who need a nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult feelings and make their own choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and introduces practical skills. It can be useful for managing anxiety, anger, mood changes, sleep and coping with life changes.

Psychodynamic Therapy explores past experiences and relationship patterns to understand how they shape current feelings and reactions. This can help when recurring themes like abandonment or guilt keep showing up.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on goals, preferences, and what shows progress in sessions. This is a joint process that may shift over time.

If you are considering online options, confirm which session formats the therapist is currently offering before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins, and let people join from locations with fewer distractions or better scheduling flexibility. Licensed professionals often use these practical benefits to keep therapy manageable while working toward real changes.