About Sommer
Sommer Seitz is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Washington. She brings 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Sommer aims to make the first step toward change feel possible and supported.
She focuses on building an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk honestly about thoughts and feelings. Sessions emphasize practical steps and clearer communication so people can feel steadier day to day.
Background and approach
Sommer pays attention to how past hurts, attachment patterns, and family of origin issues shape current reactions. People often seek her help for problems with codependency, avoidance, control, or recurring patterns like abandonment fears and isolation. She also works with concerns such as body image, guilt and shame, and life transitions like divorce and midlife reevaluation.
Obsessive or compulsive behaviors and difficulty finding life purpose are also part of her clinical focus. Sommer uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s goals. She supports clients in learning new coping skills, improving communication, and processing traumatic experiences.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely by video calls, phone, chat, or text-based messaging. Sommer describes therapy as a collaborative effort and helps people set practical goals they can work toward between sessions.
Evidence-based methods and flexible online care
The practice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes learning coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress; it helps people handle daily triggers and build routine habits that lower distress. Another approach centers on processing traumatic experiences and their effects on current relationships, giving people tools to understand reactions and take gradual steps toward feeling safer and more connected.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify goals, experiment with techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. That collaboration helps tailor sessions to the client's needs, tempo, and preferences rather than applying a single formula.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a quicker check-in option, and messaging supports shorter updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity of care from wherever the client is located in Washington.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English