About Natalie
Natalie Summit is a licensed professional counselor with nearly three decades of practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, depression, ADHD, and related concerns. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at helping clients feel heard and find practical ways forward.
Natalie began her career in community mental health and later spent twenty years as a mental health professional serving a local law enforcement agency. That work involved crisis intervention and support during very difficult situations.
Background and approach
Those years shaped a calm, practical way of working with overwhelming experiences. In sessions she listens first, then helps people choose doable steps. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to reduce distress.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when stress is high. Natalie brings particular experience with addiction, domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, grief, and post-traumatic stress. She also helps with relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, career questions, and issues like guilt, shame, and isolation.
Her background gives her familiarity with first responder issues and the pressures those roles bring. She provides telehealth sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Natalie describes her approach as respectful and culturally aware, and she works collaboratively to tailor care to each person’s needs.
Her goal is to help people build practical skills and steady routines that fit their lives.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on actions that match their values. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, mood disorders, and stress management.Natalie takes a collaborative approach to choosing methods. She will work with each person to identify goals and try approaches that fit their needs and preferences. If something does not feel useful, she and the client adjust the plan together so work in therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow real-time face-to-face work for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief updates, homework check-ins, or shorter conversations that fit between commitments. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use therapy in day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Utah, Washington
- Languages
- English
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