About Mary
Mary Sullivan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and a wide range of life challenges. She brings 45 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Mary aims to create a calm space where clients can feel heard and start working toward clearer goals. Her approach blends several therapies to fit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the person in the room. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving emotional balance.
Mary also draws on Jungian ideas to consider meaning and patterns that repeat over time. Mindfulness practices are used to help people feel steadier in stressful moments. She often explains how stress and trauma affect the nervous system so people can make sense of their reactions.
She has worked in many clinical settings and with diverse populations over her career. Mary is particularly attentive to issues linked with trauma, addiction, first responder and veteran concerns, grief, intimacy, and family of origin problems. Her style is straightforward and educational, with an emphasis on building skills for everyday life.
Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging for residents of Colorado. Mary explains options clearly and helps people pick what will fit their needs and routine.
Practical approaches for online care and coping
Mary combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her online practice. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following what the person says matters most and creating space to be heard. It helps when someone needs a steady, listening presence to sort out feelings and goals. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete steps to change patterns that cause distress; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and habit change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary treats the choice of methods as a collaboration with each client. She listens to what feels most pressing, tries techniques together, and adjusts the plan as progress or new issues appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent work on goals.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 45 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English