About Kelley
Kelley Sullivan is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of practice. She works from Colorado and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Kelley focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship concerns.
She uses clear, practical talk in sessions so people can work through upsetting feelings. Kelley listens without judgment and helps clients name patterns that make life harder. She supports people recovering from trauma and abuse and those coping with addiction or bipolar symptoms.
Background and approach
Kelley draws on a mix of approaches to match the person in front of her. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based work to shift unhelpful thoughts and increase meaningful action. Attachment-informed ideas guide conversations about closeness, boundaries, and intimacy.
Sessions include skill practice, problem solving, and real-world steps to test what changes help. Kelley also addresses practical concerns such as sleep, eating, career stress, caregiving strain, and body image. She pays attention to cultural background and life context when setting goals.
People can meet with Kelley by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She accepts international clients and tailors pacing to each person’s needs. To begin, clients use the site’s matching steps to schedule according to availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions and support change
Kelley commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and when worry gets in the way of living.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is practical for panic, phobias, low mood, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy informs conversations about closeness, boundaries, and how early relationships shape current patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelley will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then tailor methods together. That collaborative process helps pick techniques that fit the individual's life and needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets therapists and clients use visual cues and role-play skills, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat and messaging make short check-ins and skill practice possible between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can keep therapy going around busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington, Oregon, Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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