About David
David Sullivan is a licensed counselor who helps people facing anxiety, phobias, depression, addiction, and major life changes. He brings 23 years of clinical experience and works with adults on relationships, stress, grief, and career questions. He uses clear, practical guidance to help clients find steady steps forward.
He begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small, doable changes.
Background and approach
He emphasizes building skills people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and handle difficult moments. David draws largely on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches. That mix means he helps people notice patterns, practice new responses, and keep their own values central to decisions.
He explains techniques in plain language and tests what works for each individual. He has training in counseling and additional graduate study in divinity, and he does not impose his personal beliefs on clients. He is comfortable addressing trauma, grief, intimacy issues, parenting strain, caregiver stress, ADHD, and several other concerns listed in his specialties.
David works with people across Michigan and beyond, and he supports international clients as well. He offers a straightforward, respectful style aimed at helping people build routines and strategies that fit their daily lives.
How David’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship so clients feel heard and can set their own goals. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort values, grief, or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, phobias, or unhelpful habits. Sessions usually involve simple exercises to try between meetings and concrete steps for everyday situations.
Mindfulness Therapy brings attention training and grounding practices into everyday life to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It pairs well with CBT when managing stress or sleep and can be used in short daily practices.
Finding the right combination is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adapt methods based on what helps most. Clients are involved in choosing which tools to use and how to apply them to real situations.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules, travel, or different time zones.
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What this therapist 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
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