Dr. Sommer Garrett

Dr. Sommer Garrett views counseling as a trusted space for people's stories. She focuses on the shame and guilt that can grow out of painful experiences and how those feelings can make someone feel flawed instead of hurt. Dr. Garrett invites people to name what happened and to notice how they learned to survive.

She draws on nine years of clinical experience and has provided trauma-focused counseling and education outside the United States in Kenya, Uganda, and Ukraine. Those experiences shaped her belief that people everywhere want to be known, accepted, and connected. She brings that perspective into sessions and listens for what has kept a person stuck.

Her style is warm, collaborative, and sometimes a little unconventional. She says, "It's weird until it works," and will use talking plus other methods to help when words aren’t enough. The goal is usually to reduce anxiety and stress and to build a stronger sense of self.

Practically, she may guide clients through imagery, creative expression, or trauma-focused methods to address difficult memories and attachment concerns. Sessions focus on recognizing strengths and loosening the hold of guilt, shame, and fear. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, parenting pressures, career questions, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.

Her work centers on collaboration. She aims to help people understand how past events shaped them and to find ways forward that feel manageable. If someone wants a therapist who listens deeply and uses varied tools, Dr. Garrett offers that kind of partnering approach.

How attachment, CBT, and client-centered work online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and trust. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating when those patterns cause pain.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In remote sessions this approach helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and try small experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, or career-related stress.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's experience and pace, with the therapist following the person's lead. This style supports people who need someone to listen deeply and help them find their own answers.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which mix of methods fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can change as therapy progresses.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, since formats are not specified in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people try approaches such as guided imagery or creative exercises from wherever they are, while working with a licensed professional to adapt tools to daily routines.