Hi, I’m Summer.

I help people to heal from trauma and to support the survivors in their lives so that we can build a world with more compassion, connection, and joy. I do this through my work as a therapist, educator, and facilitator.

Qualifications:

  • Masters in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University

  • EMDR Trained by the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Project in 2017

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #123547 in California

    • Completed 3000 hours of supervised clinical experience and passed the statewide clinical exam

Training and Experience:

  • Experience treating eating disorders at IOP, PHP, and Residential levels of care

  • Community mental health including work with junior high and high school students at school

  • Additional consultation and training in eating disorder recovery, dissociative disorders, and EMDR for complex PTSD

About Summer

I graduated with my Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University in 2018. Since then, I have worked with teens in school-based counseling, with the general population in community mental health, and with eating disorder patients at residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization levels of care.

I now run a virtual private practice providing online EMDR therapy to California residents. In my practice, I specialize in treating the impacts of trauma, including eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and cycle of abuse.

Educators are near and dear to my heart. In my life before therapy, I taught 5th grade in East Harlem for a year, then worked as a substitute teacher for the two years I was in graduate school. My husband is a 4th grade teachers, both of my parents are teachers, and my grandmother was a school principal.

I love pop punk music, my dog Ronin, taking up new hobbies, and building Ikea furniture. On weekends you can find me writing, taking long walks, listening to podcasts, or trying new recipes.