Wired Together

Your Facilitator

Dr. Elle Sullivan, Ph.D.

After nearly two decades of clinical work, Dr. Elle Sullivan began noticing the same invisible patterns shaping how people navigate conflict, uncertainty, and connection. The Inner Compass framework grew out of that work — a way of understanding the internal signals that quietly guide how we move through our relationships.

Dr. Elle Sullivan is a licensed clinical psychologist, published author, and coach with nearly two decades of clinical experience. She completed her postdoctoral training at Columbia University, where she served as both Postdoctoral Fellow and Staff Psychologist, and later joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her clinical work integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, and coaching psychology, with deep expertise in how people become trapped in their own internal patterns — and how they get out.

Over years of practice and teaching, Dr. Elle began systematically mapping what she kept observing: four distinct ways people navigate stress, uncertainty, and relationship conflict — each with genuine strengths and predictable costs under pressure. The result is the Inner Compass Navigational Styles framework, now the foundation of this program. It translates what typically lives in a clinical office into a coherent, practical framework couples can use in everyday life.

While therapy can be deeply transformative, Dr. Elle recognized that many of the insights that genuinely change relationships are fundamentally educational. When people understand how their minds work — how thoughts, emotions, and reactions form predictable patterns — they gain something more durable than communication skills: the ability to see each other differently. That is what Wired Together is built to deliver.