About Mary
Mary Sullivan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She offers steady, experienced support for people coping with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, and similar concerns. Her long career aims to help people feel steadier and more able to manage day-to-day life.
Mary draws on body-focused work alongside talk-based methods. She explains how stress and trauma can affect the body and nervous system, then helps people notice and work with those physical responses.
Background and approach
Sessions mix practical skills, reflective conversation, and attention to bodily experience so people can find relief that fits their life. With 45 years of clinical experience, Mary has worked in many settings and with diverse issues. She values plain explanation and teaching in sessions, so clients understand what’s happening and why certain steps may help.
That knowledge is part of the path toward feeling better. Her work includes tools from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and Jungian ideas, used together as appropriate. Mary also brings focused experience with addiction, complex trauma, first responder and veteran concerns, and grief-related issues.
People who choose her can expect direct, compassionate guidance and help building practical skills for coping. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging for people in Colorado who prefer remote options.
How somatic and skills-based approaches translate online
Mary integrates somatic awareness, client-centered therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Somatic work helps people notice bodily sensations tied to stress or trauma and learn simple ways to regulate those responses. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding, so people feel heard and can set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) adds practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build coping skills.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Mary collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level. She often blends techniques rather than relying on a single method so the plan fits the individual.
Online therapy via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer remote care. These formats let people use somatic exercises, practice CBT skills, and have reflective conversations from home. Remote sessions can make it easier to maintain momentum and use therapeutic tools between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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