Fulisha Burks

Fulisha Burks is an Illinois LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of practice. She helps people who are feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed by stress and grief. Her work also includes support for depression, trauma and abuse, and questions about life purpose.

She draws on client-centered therapy to keep conversations focused on each person's experience. That means she listens, reflects, and follows what matters most to the person in the room. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to examine patterns of thinking that keep problems going, and dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional regulation and coping strategies are needed.

Her background includes work across different settings with people facing chronic health concerns, hospice needs, and addiction recovery. That range gives her practical perspective on managing illness, pain, caregiving stress, and isolation. She also supports people working on self-esteem, self-love, women's issues, and workplace concerns.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She helps people break big questions into concrete steps to try between meetings. That can include experimenting with new routines, practicing emotion-management skills, or testing different ways of approaching work and relationships.

For someone unsure what comes next, she offers steady, experience-based support and tools to explore options. People who want to start complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session to see how the work fits their needs.

How her approaches work in online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in each session. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client's lead to set goals and topics to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In sessions she helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tries practical experiments to shift them. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping. Those skills are useful when anxiety, stress, or trauma symptoms become overwhelming.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with the person to decide whether client-centered conversation, CBT tasks, DBT skills training, or a mix will best match the person's needs, goals, and preferences. The plan can change as progress and challenges become clearer.

Confirm the available session formats before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. Phone or video options may help when someone prefers less bandwidth or a quicker session. The focus is on making therapy practical and workable for everyday life rather than promising a particular outcome.