About Kelley
Kelley Sullivan is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping people through hard moments. She holds the LCSW credential and practices from Colorado while working with clients in English and Spanish. Kelley focuses on real-life problems like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and addictions.
Her style is direct and respectful. Sessions aim to make sense of difficult feelings and find practical steps forward. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them build skills they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Kelley draws on a mix of approaches to match the situation. She uses cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behavioral strategies to change patterns that keep people stuck. Attachment-focused work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness.
Therapy includes planning small experiments, learning grounding and emotion skills, and practicing clearer communication. Kelley pays attention to identity and culture when those things matter to a person’s story. She also supports people navigating chronic health issues, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care history, and sexuality topics including kink and alternative sex culture.
People meet with Kelley by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are offered to international clients as well. To begin, a person selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to availability.
How Kelley’s approaches translate to online care
Kelley uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take committed action even when emotions are strong. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where moving toward valued goals matters more than reducing every upsetting thought.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past relationships shape current patterns around closeness and trust. This work can help people improve communication, reduce reactivity, and build more satisfying connections.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelley will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then tailor sessions. That collaborative process makes it easier to try methods that feel useful and to change course when something isn’t helping.
Online formats make regular work more practical. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier when multitasking is needed. Live chat or text messaging can serve as short check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington, Oregon, Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish