Edward Sullivan, MA, Licensed Independent Social Worker-Supv

Life can feel overwhelming when you're facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, family conflict, or major life changes. For over 40 years, I've helped hundreds of people find hope, healing, and practical solutions during life's most challenging seasons. I provide a caring, supportive environment where clients feel heard, understood, and respected. As a lifelong Christian, I believe people can overcome even difficult circumstances, and I work alongside my clients to build on their strengths and create lasting change.

All good counseling accomplishes certain basic things: an improved, healthy understanding of ourselves, improved relationships with the significant people in our lives, and, for those who are spiritual, an improved relationship with God. Whatever label or diagnosis we put on our problems, these basic human factors are involved. In my 40+ years working in community and private mental health, I have helped clients deal with the pain of low self-esteem, self-hate, spouse and partner issues, parenting problems, family conflict, and spiritual issues. Individual, relational, and spiritual problems almost always involve some sort of trauma that leaves us in a state of pain and diminishes our satisfaction in life. Anxiety, depression, anger, mood swings, and even disconnection from reality can be the result. As a mental health counselor in the Westerville and Greater Columbus, Ohio area, I work with clients to help them make sense of their pain, change the patterns that sustain it, and come to understand the strengths and assets they have to build a healthier, more satisfying life. My services include help in the following areas: Self-control: Addiction (drugs, alcohol, pornography), impulse control, anger management, and attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD). Cognition: Psychosis, obsessive thoughts, low self-esteem, and self-hate. Relational: Marriage and couples, parenting, aging parents, divorce, blended families, friendships, loneliness, and betrayal. Mood: Anxiety, depression, bipolar, panic attacks, and anger. Trauma: Sexual abuse, domestic violence, childhood abuse, emotional abuse, manipulation, death, grief, and loss. Spiritual: Church abuse, religious perfectionism, self-condemnation, condemnation of others, feelings of alienation from God, and questions concerning God's existence. If you have questions about other issues or areas of treatment, please contact our office.