Rick Fulton, LPC

Rick Fulton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a master’s degree in Counseling from the University of North Texas in Denton. He draws primarily from a cognitive behavioral orientation while also incorporating gestalt-informed methods to help clients identify patterns, make practical changes, and address complex emotional concerns. Over the course of his career he has treated mental health and addiction issues across a range of settings, including both inpatient and outpatient care.

He has worked with people managing grief, HIV and AIDS, dual diagnosis conditions that combine addiction and mental health disorders, couples, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. His practice, based in Meridian, Texas, operates exclusively online to offer appointments by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. He provides Christian counseling on request while making the practice inclusive for people of any spiritual background.

Rick brings training in the stages of change and motivational interviewing techniques to support clients working toward recovery and behavior change. He is certified to teach Developing Capable Young People, a course created by Stephen Glenn for caregivers of young people. His stated goals for therapy are to build an alliance grounded in love, acceptance, and support, and to help clients leave sessions with practical insights they can apply to daily life.

His hours are Monday through Friday from 10am to 7pm and Saturday from 10am to 1pm. Messages sent after 8pm are answered the next morning, and he generally responds to messages within 24 hours. He does not provide counseling on demand. For live chat or video appointments he asks for 24 hours notice for cancellations; after a first no-show he will attempt to reschedule, and after a second consecutive no-show it is the client’s responsibility to contact him about rescheduling.