Jim Sullivan has been working as a successful dating/relationship coach in the gay community with over 25 years of counseling experience, coaching men on their interpersonal journey.  His openness, sense of humor, keen insight, and empathetic style have helped him gain a growing acceptance as an advisor to men who are in search of their soul mate.

Mr. Sullivan knows the minefields of dating through his own early disastrous attempts as a single guy.  Through his own maturing as a dating man he has become a mentor for other men who have fought the good fight in the dating scene and are exasperated by a scene which is fraught with disappointment, duplicity, and a loss of hope.  Jim, who calls himself a "prisoner of hope," has been able to motivate these men to see their own self-worth, help them customize their own action plan and detail the outcomes of these actions s precisely as an accountant does his numbers. "God is in the details," says Jim.  "So many men before they come to see me speak in vague language about dating.  Their plans are always mushy, so the resultant outcomes are inevitably disappointing.  I offer men the tools and skills necessary to keep their dating life on track.  They repeat and go back to their olds ways, with their tail between their legs and curse the gay community for 'doing it to them.'  I offer a way out of this miserable cul de sac."

In 1995 Jim Sullivan began running workshops on dating strategies for gay men at the Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center on West 13th Street in New York City.  He expected fifteen men and 55 showed up. Subsequent workshops exceeded 125 participants.  More recently, Jim has brought his workshops to Boston, Detroit and other U.S. cities.

Mr. Sullivan obtained a Masters degree from NYU in Counseling and an
M.A. degree in Religious Studies from Manhattan College.