About Cory
Cory Sullivan is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people adjust after trauma, chronic illness, or major life changes. He brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions and speaks plainly about coping, hope, and practical next steps. Cory emphasizes that difficult thoughts do not tell the whole story and that people are not alone in rebuilding their lives.
He draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice what matters and take manageable steps.
Background and approach
Mindfulness skills are used to reduce overwhelm and bring attention back to the present. Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools can help when emotions feel intense and hard to manage. Cory works with concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and panic symptoms.
He also supports people facing caregiver strain, cancer-related adjustment, aging challenges, and issues tied to identity, guilt, or isolation. Veterans, first responders, and men seeking to address role and life transitions appear among his focus areas. Sessions aim to mix practical skill-building with a respectful, strengths-focused tone.
Cory helps people practice new habits, test realistic goals, and rethink unhelpful patterns. He centers each plan on the person’s values and day-to-day life. He provides services from California and conducts sessions in English.
Cory holds a California LCSW license (CA LCSW 113818) and uses methods suited to each person’s goals and situation.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Online sessions work well for CBT because clients can learn exercises, try them between sessions, and review progress remotely. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify values and take committed action even when thoughts or feelings are painful. This approach fits remote work when the focus is on values-based homework and gradual behavior change.The right approach is often found together. Cory will talk with each person about goals, daily life, and what feels most useful. Then he tailors methods so they fit the client’s schedule, energy, and priorities rather than sticking to one technique.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or pacing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines while using ACT, CBT, or DBT-informed skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English