Sonya Fuller, LISW

Sonya Fuller is an Ohio Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 28 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, grief, self-esteem issues, addictions, trauma, parenting strains, depression, and related challenges. Sonya also addresses topics such as intimate issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue.

She earned a Master of Social Work from Cleveland State University and began her career after completing a bachelor’s degree at Bowling Green State University. Early roles included community social work and leadership at a women and children’s shelter, where she did crisis intervention, case management, life coaching, group work, and service coordination. Those years involved work with runaway teens and people entangled in the justice system.

Later clinical roles moved into hospital and rehabilitation settings. In those environments she provided counseling and case management for people adjusting to sudden, life-changing events that brought on depression and anxiety. Those experiences shaped her focus on practical planning and coping strategies for a new normal.

Her current work includes hospice social work, providing grief work and marital and family counseling around the time of a patient’s transition. This role has deepened her practice around end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, and bereavement support.

Sonya’s practice uses a client-centered stance alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychodynamic ideas. Sessions focus on clear conversation, concrete coping skills, and reflection on patterns that keep problems repeating. She asks about goals, offers straightforward tools, and works collaboratively to develop steps that can be used in everyday life.

How Sonya’s approaches translate to online work