About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Deus Sullivan is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Indiana with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Her work includes attention to relationship and parenting concerns as well as issues such as ADHD, addiction, grief, and self-esteem. She favors an approachable, client-centered style. Sessions begin with listening to what matters most and then shaping goals that fit the person.
Background and approach
She draws on practical methods from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help people build skills they can use daily. Attachment-based ideas guide how she looks at close relationships and patterns that repeat across years. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when intense emotions or impulsivity make change hard.
Together these approaches help people understand patterns and try new ways of responding. Dr. Sullivan has worked across independent practice, schools, churches, universities, inpatient behavioral health, and intensive outpatient settings.
That variety informs how she matches tools to a person’s life and challenges. She also brings resources into sessions, like reading suggestions and short audio materials, to support learning between meetings. Her sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on small, usable steps people can try right away.
Approaches that guide online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns show up now. It helps people notice connection patterns, improve closeness, and change repeating interactions that cause pain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It offers concrete strategies to test unhelpful thoughts, reduce anxiety, and change behaviors that get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist listens to your goals and tries methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you review what helps and adjust the plan as you go to make progress that matters to you.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow more visual connection when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in suits a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick reflections, ongoing encouragement, or brief skill practice between longer sessions.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work on relationship patterns, anxiety, grief, or parenting concerns using tools and practice tailored to real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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