Jeffrey Sumpolec, LPCC, LPC

Jeffrey Sumpolec is a California-based licensed therapist who mainly sees adults. He focuses on everyday worries like anxiety, depression, stress, and the fallout from addiction or anger. He aims to help people who feel stuck by guiding clear, practical conversations about what matters to them now.

Jeffrey uses a person-centered way of working that highlights a client's strengths. He helps people notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. That can make it easier to see patterns that lead to self-defeating choices and then change them.

In sessions he draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused perspectives. These approaches shape short, goal-oriented work and longer discussions about relationship patterns and values. The style is direct but respectful, with room for reflection and skills practice.

With 22 years of clinical experience, Jeffrey brings steady professional experience to common life struggles. He moved to California from Virginia and continues to focus on adults dealing with stress, mood shifts, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He also offers support around career strain, caregiving and aging issues, and challenges like obsessive thoughts or social anxiety.

He works in English and accepts international clients. People who want a practical, strengths-based conversation about changing thoughts and everyday habits may find his approach helpful.

How his approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes actions guided by personal values while helping people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can help with obsessive thinking, mood problems, and social anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses, useful for intimacy issues and relationship strain.

Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process helps shape sessions over time rather than locking someone into one way of working at the start.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, since this profile does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins during work breaks, or remove travel time for those with caregiving or work constraints. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-focused work to an online setting through conversation, exercises, and homework that fit daily routines.