About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Sumpolec offers calm, practical support for adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. He is Jeffrey Sumpolec, an LPCC and LPC with 22 years of experience. He uses straightforward talk and problem-solving to help people get through hard moments and find clearer paths forward.
In sessions he focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. He helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding. That can include looking at relationships, patterns of behavior, and day-to-day habits that keep problems stuck.
How Jeffrey works
Jeffrey blends several well-known approaches. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take actions that matter. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns and shift them.
He also works from a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s experience central. Over two decades in practice have included work with trauma, addictions, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy-related issues, and grief or life transitions. He also addresses things like low self-esteem, anger, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and sexual concerns when they come up.
Jeffrey practices in California and offers services in English. His approach aims to be practical and respectful, helping people build tools for day-to-day coping and for longer-term change.
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What Jeffrey works with
The areas below are the ones Jeffrey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it focuses on choosing actions that match one’s values. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life changes make it hard to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses practical exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking. This approach is useful for worry, mood problems, obsessive patterns, and many stress-related concerns.
Jeffrey approaches finding the right method as a team effort. He will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that suit those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That collaborative process means the approach can shift as progress is made.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text lets people send messages between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and can help therapy fit into busy or changing routines.
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