Dr. Kimberly Deus Sullivan, LMHC

Dr. Kimberly Deus Sullivan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with two decades of clinical experience. She brings a steady, person-centered presence to sessions and focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and midlife transitions.

She works with adults and has experience with parenting concerns, ADHD, grief, addictions, and relationship strain. She also helps people dealing with eating and body-image issues, anger, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her background includes work in private practice, schools, churches, universities, inpatient behavioral health, and intensive outpatient settings.

Her style is client-centered and integrative. Sessions aim to create a listening space where clients feel heard and validated. She draws on a mix of methods, including attachment-focused ideas, cognitive-behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and solution-focused tools.

In session, Dr. Sullivan uses practical resources like books and podcasts alongside therapeutic conversation. Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and skill practice tailored to daily life challenges. The emphasis is on small, useful changes rather than jargon-filled therapy talk.

Her experience includes supporting people through divorce and custody concerns, blended family challenges, caregiver strain, chronic health issues, and compassion fatigue. Those seeking help with impulsivity, codependency, family-of-origin issues, or forgiveness work will find these areas familiar to her practice approach.

How attachment work and CBT translate to online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating to others and to oneself. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; it offers concrete skills for anxiety, depression, and midlife stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm and improve focus.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, daily routines, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether attachment-focused exploration, CBT skill-building, mindfulness practice, or a mix fits best. The process is collaborative and can change as needs shift.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time. It also lets people use written exercises, share articles or podcasts between meetings, and practice skills in real-life moments. Talk with the therapist about scheduling and how to shape sessions to match life demands.