About Mary
Mary Sullivan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 45 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, ADHD, grief, and related concerns. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more capable in daily life.
Mary draws on several therapeutic methods to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered techniques to listen and build trust.
How Mary works
She applies cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also integrates elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to teach emotional regulation and grounding skills. Her long career includes work across many clinical settings and with a wide range of life challenges.
That experience informs practical strategies for managing anger, intimacy issues, family-of-origin concerns, and career stress. Mary also supports people dealing with first responder and veteran-related issues and addiction recovery. Sessions tend to combine talk, skill-building, and education about how stress and trauma affect the nervous system.
She encourages learning about symptoms as part of the healing process and focuses on concrete problem solving. The goal is to leave each person with tools they can use between sessions. Mary offers sessions in multiple formats to fit busy lives.
She helps people develop coping plans for life changes and compassion fatigue, and she tailors work to the specific issues brought into the room.
Mary lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 45 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Mary uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, listening-first space where the person sets the pace and priorities. This approach helps when someone needs understanding, validation, and steady support while sorting through difficult feelings.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and shift patterns that lead to distress. CBT is practical and skill-based, which works well for anxiety, depression, addiction-related behaviors, and everyday stressors.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. Mary will talk with each person about their goals, try different tools, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to needs rather than assuming one path fits everyone.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between appointments. These options make it easier to keep consistent work going while managing life responsibilities.
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