Summer
Fletcher

Summer Fletcher is a wife and mom who loves learning and spending time with family, friends, and her dog. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Professional Counseling with a Continued Advanced Graduate Degree in Marriage, Family, Addiction, and Recovery. Summer is the owner of Path of Life Counseling and is an Arizona board-approved Clinical Supervisor. Summer is trained in Attachment Theory, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Therapeutic Holy Yoga, Somatic Body Work and is a Certified Integrative Mental Health Practitioner, striving to be at the cutting edge of trauma-informed care.

Summer began her career working with children and families in the adoption system, including engaging in the creation and development of a shelter for abused and neglected children and working with all parts of the adoption triad, including working as a supervisor. In 2012, Summer began working in private practice.  Currently, Summer is the owner of Path of Life Counseling, supervises other therapists, sees clients, speaks publicly, and provides training to churches and other organizations.    

At Path of Life Counseling, Summer's primary focus is working with individuals and families struggling with the management of emotions and body sensations related to trauma, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, body image issues, and grief and loss. As an Attachment Therapist, Summer uses an eclectic approach that includes a variety of regulatory strategies, as well as teaching modalities regarding the brain, the body, and the nervous system. Some of her favorite interventions originate from a combination of Dr. Dan Siegel’s work on the brain and body's functions, Dr. Pat Ogden’s body-centric approach called Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Dr. Kathy Kain’s Somatic Touch Work. In addition, she teaches the research-driven parenting model, TBRI. Other modalities she uses include play therapy, body awareness strategies, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Marilyn Murray’s Parts interventions, experiential exercises, and boundary strategies. In addition, integration of faith is welcomed for those who so desire it.

The core of what Summer does comes from a deep belief that God is the ultimate Healer and Counselor, and, as an outreach of her personal journey, she feels called to help others. She believes that there is no place for judgment in the counseling room but instead brings an intrinsic understanding that we all are imperfect, living in a broken world, and that hard experiences happen to each one of us. Her goal is to help clients know themselves and God in a restorative way so that they can walk into freedom, propelled to love more deeply as they embrace their individual Path of Life.