Susan Sullivan
Compassionate, practical therapy for life transitions
LMFT Texas
- Experience
- 11 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Grief, Anger, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Susan
Susan Sullivan is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with eleven years of clinical experience helping people navigate difficult life moments.
Background and approach
She emphasizes cognitive behavioral techniques alongside a person-centered stance, blending practical skill-building with compassionate listening to support change across a range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and compassion fatigue. Sullivan frames therapy as a collaborative effort where the client is regarded as the expert on their own story.
She draws on evidence-based tools including CBT, solution-focused methods, mindfulness practices, and narrative work to tailor treatment to each person’s circumstances. Her practice includes both individual and group formats, and she integrates psychoeducation to help clients apply new strategies outside sessions.
Throughout the process she prioritizes a humanistic, respectful approach that aims to restore perspective, clarify goals, and address relationship, parenting, career, intimacy, and trauma-related difficulties. Based in Texas and licensed as an LMFT, she offers English-language services and uses flexible session formats to accommodate different needs and schedules.
Practical approaches and online care
Susan Sullivan integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and skill-building, which can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and addictive patterns. The client-centered approach emphasizes empathy and genuine listening, creating room for self-exploration and helping clients clarify their own values and goals.She also weaves mindfulness techniques into sessions to teach present-moment awareness and stress reduction strategies that complement cognitive work. Together these approaches allow flexibility in addressing emotional concerns, relationship patterns, grief, and life transitions while keeping the client’s priorities central. Sullivan treats the selection of methods as a collaborative process and will work with each person to determine which combination fits their needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Sullivan is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving clients options to engage in ways that fit their routines. These formats support ongoing skill practice, make scheduling more adaptable, and can help maintain continuity of care when in-person appointments are not feasible.
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Experience
11+ years
Licensed
Texas, Michigan
Languages
English