About Summer
Summer Von Stein is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, and major life changes. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on practical tools you can use between sessions.
She blends client-centered conversation with structured cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she listens closely to what matters to you and then helps you test new thoughts and behaviors that reduce distress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward coping skills, communication practice, and small experiments to try in daily life. Summer has five years of clinical experience as an LCSW. She uses that background to help people untangle issues around attachment, body image, guilt, and loneliness.
She also supports those navigating divorce, caregiver stress, and questions about life purpose. In sessions she pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns. Then she helps people build different ways of responding.
The focus is on practical change, not just talking about feelings. People can expect clear goals, homework that feels doable, and a calm, nonjudgmental conversation. Summer offers work on self-love, communication problems, mood concerns, and post-traumatic stress with attention to women’s experiences when relevant.
How client-centered and CBT work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps people clarify what matters most to them and how they want things to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific tools to shift unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, mood problems, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Together they will adjust techniques over time so the work feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy makes that collaborative work more flexible. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or an option for people who prefer writing to speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills in real-world moments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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