Sullivan Therapy Services

Colleen Lhotsky Sullivan

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC

“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

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Colleen Lhotsky Sullivan - Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC

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Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy - Colleen Lhotsky Sullivan - Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
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Family Therapy - Colleen Lhotsky Sullivan - Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
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    About Me

    Colleen Lhotsky Sullivan - Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPCOriginally from Maryland, receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, College Park I have experience working with special needs children and substance abuse counseling. I worked briefly in a Montessori school while obtaining a Master’s Degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Argosy University’s CACREP accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. I love the Montessori philosophy and often bring some aspects into my practice. I believe creating a calm, nonjudgmental space helps others go to that headspace themselves, making it easier to focus and create a habit to find their calm on their own.

    Since moving to Charleston, I continued my experience working with children in crisis through an internship at Dorchester Children’s Advocacy Center and then later at another local agency, providing trauma-focused therapy, while working toward full licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor.

    I love continuing my journey in the helping profession. Some issues that bring people in for therapy are harmful behaviors seen in their children. Rather than focusing on the “why,” the “what” is the answer I like to look for – what might be causing a child to behave this harmful way and how can we work together to replace those harmful/unhelpful behaviors with more helpful coping mechanisms.

    I regularly work with people with the following:

    • Anxiety
    • Trauma
    • Adjustment
    • Depression
    • Defiance
    • Anger
    • Burn out
    • Communication/Relationship issues
    • ADHD
    • Low self-esteem
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      Individual Therapy

      I incorporate expressive therapies with a trauma informed, multicultural perspective using modalities of CBT, TF-CBT, and solution focused. Through incorporating expressive therapies, like play, art and music, this can help a child with trauma, anxiety, phobias, depression, defiance, anger, ADHD, and low self-esteem reveal unconscious fears, worries, thoughts and wishes to determine their specific/unique needs. The expression is healing in itself, but the patterns or themes in their play can reveal solutions to developing a plan for the family as a whole to heal.

      • What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?: CBT has is one of the leading approaches to psychotherapy due to its strong research support. CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are constantly interacting and influencing one another. How we interpret or think about a situation determines how we feel about it, which then determines how we’ll react.
        https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/cognitive-behavioral
      • What is TF-CBT (Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?: You probably guessed it! Like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but with a focus on trauma. TF-CBT is an evidence-based treatment approach for traumatized children or children who have endured very stressful experiences (like sexual abuse, domestic violence, traumatic, grief, disasters and multiple traumas). It provides: Psychoeducation, Relaxation skills, Affective modulation skills, Cognitive coping skills, and can include a Trauma narrative – processing of the traumatic event(s)/reminders and enhancing safety and future development.
        https://tfcbt.org/about-tfcbt/
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      Family Therapy

      As a parent or guardian, asking for help for your child and family might be difficult but with a calm, non-judgmental space to explore what is most productive to your individual and family needs will help. This can include parenting (PMT) and couples therapy depending on family needs. Sometimes family members might be in the same book, but the goal is to get everyone on the same page. Working together to understand you where you and the family unit are and move you closer to your goals is what I want to help with.

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