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01About Sommer
Dr. Sommer Garrett is a licensed professional counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She describes counseling as a meaningful space for being trusted with a person's story, including the parts that hurt and the parts a person may hide.
She focuses a lot on how guilt and shame shape people's lives and sense of self. Her work includes attention to trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and stress. She has also helped people with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, career struggles, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems. Dr. Garrett has provided trauma-focused counseling and education outside the United States in Kenya, Uganda, and Ukraine.
Those experiences inform her perspective on how different cultures experience loss, guilt, and survival, while also highlighting common human longings for connection and acceptance. Her style is warm, collaborative, and sometimes a bit unconventional. She blends talking with practical techniques such as cognitive behavioral ideas, guided imagery, mindfulness, narrative work, and trauma-focused interventions to reduce anxiety and strengthen self-worth and attachment.
In sessions she helps people notice how past events shaped coping habits, name strengths they've used to survive, and practice small changes that loosen guilt, shame, and fear. Her goal is to help people feel more connected and whole while moving toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.
02Credentials
- LPC (South Carolina)
- License 9634 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1265252613 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sommer lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Sommer names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
These are the methods Sommer names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online therapy
Dr. Garrett uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current connections and safety. This approach helps people understand patterns in relationships and build more supported ways of relating.She also uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the person's experience and goals while the clinician listens with empathy and reflects what is most important. Cognitive behavioral therapy is part of her toolkit for identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust techniques as progress is made.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Different methods can be adapted for remote work, and she brings mindfulness, narrative exercises, and practical cognitive strategies into conversations to help with stress, shame, and trauma-related symptoms.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related family-of-origin and attachment challenges.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm and collaborative with a willingness to try unconventional methods when helpful. Sessions include talking plus practical exercises like mindfulness, guided imagery, and cognitive-behavioral ideas.
What is her clinical background?
She has nine years of counseling experience and has provided trauma-focused counseling and education in Kenya, Uganda, and Ukraine.
What credentials and location should I know about?
She is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, practicing in South Carolina.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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