About Natalie
Natalie Summit helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. She also supports people facing relationship and communication problems, burnout, ADHD, and life transitions. Natalie is a licensed professional counselor with nearly three decades of experience.
She began her career in community mental health and later spent 20 years working alongside law enforcement. That work involved crisis intervention and responding to violence, abuse, and other traumatic events.
How Natalie works
Those years shaped her practical, calm approach and deep respect for people in difficult situations. Natalie uses a mix of therapy methods so sessions can be tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, acceptance-based skills to manage strong emotions, and person-centered listening to make people feel heard.
She also incorporates mindfulness and relationship-focused work when those fit a person’s goals. Sessions focus on clear goals and real skills. Natalie emphasizes problem-solving, improving communication, and building coping tools that can be used between meetings.
She encourages small, steady changes and checks in on what is or is not working. Natalie offers remote options from Arizona and works in English. She has particular experience with first responder issues and brings 29 years of clinical practice to her work.
People who value straightforward guidance and respectful listening often choose to work with her.
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What Natalie works with
The areas below are the ones Natalie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapy approaches online and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on accepting difficult feelings rather than fighting them and identifying values to guide action. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for mood, anxiety, and many daily challenges. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and understood; the therapist provides empathic listening so people can explore their own solutions and gain clarity.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Natalie will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made. The focus is on what helps in everyday life, not on fitting someone into a single label.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping continuity of care.
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A practical next step
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