About David
David Sullivan, LCPC, LPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or major life changes. He writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person. He aims to help people take practical steps toward steadier days and clearer thinking.
He has 23 years of experience in the mental health field and practices in Michigan. His work often focuses on anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
He also supports people dealing with sleep or eating problems, career questions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and related struggles. In sessions he uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods. He leans on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new reactions.
He also uses client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to clarify goals and build momentum. David integrates mindfulness and existential approaches when they suit a client’s needs. That can mean learning simple grounding skills, reflecting on values, or making plans that fit daily life.
He frames therapy as a cooperative process where clients set priorities and pace. People work with him by arranging online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. He accepts clients in the United States and internationally, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with his practice and schedule.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
David commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles where changing thoughts and behaviors can improve functioning.He also draws on client-centered therapy, which emphasizes attentive listening, empathy, and letting clients lead the pace and focus of sessions. That approach helps people build trust, clarify values, and decide what to work on next.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He partners with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That collaboration can mean focusing on skill-building for a while, then shifting toward deeper reflection if needed.
Online formats make this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and check-ins. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, written coaching, and a way to keep progress between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and stick with the plans they create.
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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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