About Rick
Rick Fulton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 30 years of clinical experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship strain, grief, and a range of other concerns. He offers online-only care and responds to messages within a day during regular hours.
He trained at the University of North Texas and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Over three decades he has helped people managing bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, co-occurring addiction and mental health conditions, and first responder issues.
Background and approach
He also supports people with eating and intimacy-related concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. His approach draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, with additional use of narrative and mindfulness techniques when helpful. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and steps that people can try between meetings.
He can include Christian counseling on request, while welcoming people of all spiritual backgrounds. Rick prefers an alliance built on acceptance, respect, and support. He aims for people to leave sessions with at least one useful idea to apply that day.
He asks for 24-hour notice for missed live chat or video appointments and follows a rescheduling process after repeated no-shows. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Messages sent outside of his hours are answered the next morning, typically within 24 hours.
Online approaches that teach skills and change habits
Rick often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT focuses on clear, practical steps and is useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems.He also often applies motivational interviewing to help people sort out their goals and strengthen motivation for change. This approach is useful for addictions, ambivalence about change, and building small forward steps.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Then he tailors sessions and homework to match those needs in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or work with limited bandwidth, and chat or messaging fits quick updates or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit care into work, family, or other routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English