About David
David Sullivan is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people take practical steps forward. He brings 23 years of experience and works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship trouble, depression, grief, and ADHD. He writes in plain terms and aims to help people reach goals that fit their values.
David uses straightforward methods to build skills and make small changes that add up. He often helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try different behaviors, and develop clearer boundaries.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with an eye on what works in daily life. He draws on a mix of approaches, including client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and existential themes. That allows him to adapt to different needs while keeping a practical focus on coping and problem solving.
David’s background includes a Master of Arts in Counseling and a Master of Divinity. He holds the LCPC and the LPC credentials and has worked across a range of settings over two decades. He is based in Michigan and communicates in English.
Many people come to him for help with life changes, career planning, sleep and eating concerns, trauma recovery, and relationship issues. He also supports those managing chronic illness, caregiving stress, and complicated grief. His work centers on helping each person find manageable steps toward clearer days.
Approach and online options that fit your life
David blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral ideas and motivational interviewing. Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding your values so you can set clear goals. Cognitive behavioral methods look at thoughts and behaviors and teach practical skills to change patterns that cause stress. Motivational interviewing uses guided questions to help you find your own reasons to make changes and stay motivated.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. David will explore your needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the approach as you go. He treats the process as a collaboration where you decide what feels most useful and practical.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make regular work manageable. Video suits longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you need a simple check-in. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick reflections, shorter check-ins, and when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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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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