About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Deus Sullivan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with two decades of clinical practice. She brings steady experience working with adults and young people and focuses on clear, practical steps to address everyday struggles.
Dr. Sullivan writes simply and listens closely so people feel heard and understood from the first session. She concentrates on issues like stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, along with relationship and parenting concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps with grief, substance-related problems, eating and body-image worries, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her work includes attention to attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and impulsivity. Her style is client-centered and collaborative.
Sessions aim to be a calm space to talk, notice patterns, and try small experiments that can make daily life easier. Dr. Sullivan draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness to teach practical skills for mood and focus.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior approaches and attachment-based ideas to address relationships and emotional regulation. In-session tools may include short skill practices, guided reflection, and curated readings or audio resources when helpful. Dr.
Sullivan’s background spans independent practice, schools, churches, universities, inpatient behavioral health, and intensive outpatient settings. This range informs a flexible approach to different life situations. She works with clients in English and practices as an Indiana LMHC.
People who want straightforward, experience-based guidance and concrete strategies often find this approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Sullivan often blends cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness in her online work. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing concrete skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and impulsivity. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus, which many people find useful for stress and emotional regulation.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That approach helps when relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns, or family-of-origin issues are part of the picture. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a person’s goals, preferences, and life context rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day and to continue work even when travel or scheduling is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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