Colleen Sullivan, MFT

Through her experience, Colleen has observed the many ways people get stuck in their interpersonal relationships, due to poor communication. This difficulty often results in stress and conflict in intimate partner relationships, family relationships, friendships, and in partner’s sexual connection. Colleen is excited to help her clients create healthy relationships and increased intimacy by establishing effective, honest, and healthy forms of communication.

In therapy, Colleen emphasizes the importance of working together as a team fighting toward the goal of creating a better life for you. She will encourage you to broaden your thinking and help you see things in ways you haven’t before. Colleen firmly believes YOU are the navigator of your life and through your work together, she will empower you to use tools to be the decision maker of your life to live the life you have always wanted!

Colleen’s therapeutic work involves combining Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Method, and CBT. She strives to help her clients use their thoughts and emotions to create a deeper understanding of their experience and their loved one’s experience thereby fostering a more intimate connection.  Colleen also works from a systemic lens because she believes every aspect of a person’s life is interconnected.

Colleen is a professional pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who graduated from Thomas Jefferson University in 2022.  Colleen holds a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, with an emphasis in Sex Therapy. She is working toward her sex therapy certification and PA Marriage and Family Therapy License, along with advanced training in the Gottman Method. Colleen is experienced in working with individuals, couples, and families in the outpatient setting.  She works in the practice under the supervision of Dr. Krista.

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Facing a Problem in your Relationship, Use these 5 Steps to Work Through it Together! by Colleen Sullivan, MFT
Facing a Problem in your Relationship, Use these 5 Steps to Work Through it Together! by Colleen Sullivan, MFT

Solving a problem by yourself can be hard. It can be another battle entirely to resolve a problem with a partner. It’s difficult to even know where to begin, how to navigate creating a solution, and even more so, what steps to take to make it a smooth and effective conversation. Here we will describe a simple five step process to solving the next problem in your relationship.

Better Being Connecticut in Glastonbury, CT offers telehealth psychotherapy in both Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Services include therapy for individuals including adults, adolescents, and children, couples counseling, sex therapy, parent support and coaching, and supervision or consultation. Specializations include: Anxiety and Stress, Generalized anxiety, Panic, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD, Social Anxiety, Body image and self-esteem, Work-life balance, Stress Management and Self-care, Relationship and Intimacy, Pre-Marital and Marriage Therapy, Parent Support, Separation, Divorce and Adjustment, Co-parenting after divorce or remarriage, Relationship and Dating Coaching, Communication, Life Transitions and Stress management, Infidelity, Restoring Emotional, Physical / Sexual Intimacy and Trust, Consensual Non-monogamy, Sex Therapy, Pelvic Pain / Painful Intercourse, Low Sexual Desire / Lack of interest in sex, Sexual Anxiety / Avoiding Sex / Sexual Self-Esteem, Difficulty with or inability to orgasm, Erectile Dysfunction, Premature / Delayed Ejaculation, Consensual non-monogamy, Kink and BDSM, Enhance Sexual connection, plea, Other Areas of Expertise, Trauma, Grief and Loss, Family Conflict, Life Phase Adjustments, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Difficulty Managing Emotions, Child and Adolescent Therapy, Trauma, Emotional Dysregulation, Family Conflict, Life Transitions, co-parenting support for couples who are separating / divorcing or re-partnering, children and adolescents who have difficulty with decision making, emotional regulation, peer interaction, and impulse control, Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, creative arts therapy, and mindfulness, supervision hours toward licensure or case consultation.