About David
David Sullivan helps people take practical steps when life feels stuck. He listens without judgment and focuses on small, steady changes that match each person's values. His style is direct but calm, aimed at making problems feel more manageable.
David holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and a Master of Divinity. He lists LCPC and LPC among his credentials and brings 23 years of experience in the mental health field.
Background and approach
He uses this background to support people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life changes. Sessions center on clear goals. David often uses techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches to notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses.
He also draws on client-centered and mindfulness ideas to keep the work rooted in what matters to the person in front of him. He helps people sort relationship and intimacy concerns, manage anger, improve self-esteem, and plan next steps for career or life transitions.
He also supports those coping with trauma, chronic health problems, caregiving stress, and issues tied to adoption or attachment. David is experienced with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar symptoms, eating and sleeping struggles, and compassion fatigue. He works with individuals to build skills, set priorities, and test practical changes that fit their daily life.
Approach-driven care available online
David often uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice patterns of thought and try small experiments that change how they react to stress. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday challenges because it focuses on concrete strategies to shift thinking and behavior.He also uses client-centered therapy, which prioritizes the person's own goals and values. This approach involves open listening and working at the person’s pace so the plan fits their life. Motivational interviewing is another tool he draws on to help people find reasons to change and to build momentum one step at a time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone work can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or continued coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Colorado, Idaho
- Languages
- English