About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Fulmer, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and grief find steadier footing. He listens first, then works with each person to build practical steps toward feeling better. His tone is warm and affirming, and he focuses on real-life progress rather than labels.
He draws on 23 years in social work and clinical counseling. Much of that time involved treating mental health and substance use concerns, and ten years were spent counseling college students.
Background and approach
He also directed an adoption agency and supervised foster care services, and earlier work included supporting children who had been abused, neglected, or abandoned. Jeffrey uses a client-centered way of working, which means sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and values. He blends that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
His style emphasizes strengths, steady encouragement, and recognizing small steps forward. He speaks from personal experience recovering from substance abuse, which he says helps him connect with people facing chemical dependency and its aftermath. He also teaches an online Chemical Dependency class for a nationally known university.
Jeffrey practices in Virginia and works with adults 18 and over. Sessions are offered in English, and he accepts international clients. He aims to help people move toward more acceptance, purpose, and hope in daily life.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing the person first and shaping sessions around their goals; it helps when someone wants an empathetic space to sort feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and introduces practical experiments to test new ways of coping, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and name strong emotions and then work toward clearer emotional expression and closeness in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jeffrey treats therapy as collaborative and will help identify which combination of methods fits a person's needs, goals, and preferences. He emphasizes listening first and trying things that feel doable for everyday life.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make fitting therapy into a busy schedule easier, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also make regular practice and follow-up simpler, helping the therapist and client keep track of progress between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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