About Mary
Mary Sullivan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with decades of experience helping people manage anxiety and stress. She is based in Colorado and works with adults who want practical tools to feel steadier and cope better. She writes plainly and focuses on clear, usable steps in sessions.
Mary uses a mix of conversational therapy and structured techniques. Sessions often start by identifying what feels most urgent. From there she helps people learn new coping skills and practical strategies they can use right away.
Background and approach
She also spends time explaining how stress and trauma can affect thinking and behavior so clients can make sense of their reactions. Her clinical work draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and dialectical behavior ideas. She also brings elements of Jungian therapy when that helps a person reflect on personal meaning and life patterns.
The combination aims to reduce symptoms and build daily routines that support long-term change. Mary has worked in many clinical settings over a long career and has experience with addiction, trauma, grief, relationship strain, and burnout among helping professionals. Her approach emphasizes education, skill-building, and collaboration so people leave sessions with concrete next steps.
People who contact her can expect direct conversation, practical homework, and straightforward explanations. She welcomes questions about process and progress and helps people choose strategies that fit their life and goals.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a collaborative relationship, giving people space to talk through what matters and decide goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can be assigned as short between-session practice for immediate benefit. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding strategies to reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system, useful for anxiety and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as someone learns what works best for them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing written work that fits around busy schedules. These options help make therapy easier to fit into daily life and provide different ways to access the same therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist 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
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