About Sommer
Dr. Sommer Garrett begins from a clear belief: counseling is a trusted space for the whole of a person’s story. She emphasizes the importance of being heard for the proud parts, the painful parts, and the parts someone may have hidden for years.
Dr. Garrett approaches therapy with warmth and collaboration, and she invites clients into a process that values being known and accepted. Her work often focuses on the toxic guilt and shame that follow hard experiences.
How Sommer works
She helps people separate what happened to them from who they are. That shift helps reduce anxiety, decrease self-blame, and open room for self-worth to grow. Dr.
Garrett has also worked internationally in Kenya, Uganda, and Ukraine, providing trauma-focused counseling and education across cultures. Those experiences reinforced her view that people everywhere want connection and healing, even when their stories look different. Her style is practical and sometimes a little unconventional.
Alongside talking she may include guided imagery, bilateral stimulation, creative expression, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to make progress on anxiety, attachment concerns, and painful memories. She often uses simple, concrete tools clients can apply between sessions. She aims to help people see how life events shaped their reactions without letting those events become their definition.
Sessions are collaborative - they explore what keeps someone stuck, find strengths that have helped them survive, and work to loosen the grip of guilt, shame, and fear.
Sommer lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Sommer works with
The areas below are the ones Sommer selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shaped how someone connects now. It focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns and uses concrete exercises to change unhelpful cycles and lower anxiety. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple present-moment awareness skills to reduce reactivity and manage stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, past experiences, and preferences. That conversation guides which methods to try first and how to adapt tools to fit daily life. This collaborative process helps make therapy feel useful and manageable.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time from a schedule. For some people the methods above translate well to remote sessions because they rely on conversation, guided exercises, and practices to use between meetings.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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