About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Sumpolec is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with over two decades of practice experience. He works with adults feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, stress, anger, or struggles with addiction. His style is straightforward and strengths-focused so people can start feeling steadier sooner.
He uses a person-centered approach that emphasizes what the client brings to the work. Sessions often look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. That makes it easier to spot unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding in daily life.
Background and approach
Jeffrey blends cognitive behavioral ideas with attachment-informed thinking to address relationship concerns and intimacy-related issues. He also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take small steps toward them. These approaches are practical and aimed at real-world change.
Clients coping with trauma, phobias, obsessive thoughts, or grief will find concrete tools for symptom relief alongside deeper work on shame, guilt, and self-love. He has experience supporting people dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and aging-related concerns as well. Jeffrey holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in California.
He welcomes conversations in English and works with international clients by offering remote options. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are the usual first moves.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Jeffrey commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based therapy in sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral experiments to change how someone feels and functions. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and present relationships shape patterns in close connections and helps people try new ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods if something is not helping. Clients are invited to share preferences so the work matches their needs and pace.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or scheduling is tighter, chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when travel or relocation happens.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio
- Languages
- English