Dr. Brigid Sullivan

Brigid Sullivan has her Clinical Social Work License. She has been practicing with an LCSW since 2012 and practicing social work since 2009. Brigid’s approach to therapy is based on understanding each individual’s needs, and then helping to form goals and strategies for facing challenges. Brigid approaches each person through the lens of their unique experience, specializing in assisting individuals with depression, anxiety, chronic and acute medical conditions, grief, loss, trauma, substance use, caregiver/helping professionals, active duty military members and their families, relationship issues, life stage transitions, and identity formation and development. She has her Bachelors of Science in Sociology and Social Work from Seattle University. She has her Masters of Science in Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work. She has gained clinical experience from New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Rutland Regional Medical Center, Vermont …Psychiatric Care Center, Woodhull Medical Center, and Saint Barnabas Medical Center. She has provided social work services in general medicine, oncology, heart transplant, psychiatric emergency room, inpatient psychiatric care, pulmonary care, and burn intensive care. She held a private practice working with adults in Brooklyn, NY. She now lives in New Jersey where she provides psychotherapy and clinical supervision to social workers from her home. Here are some of the theoretical frameworks utilized by Brigid: psychodynamic, existentialism, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), strength based, and focus on the here and now.