About Summer

Summer Verhines, LCSW, LCSWC

If you’re exhausted from carrying trauma that won't let go, or tired of therapy that feels like talking in circles without real change, you've found the right place.

I’m Summer Verhines, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in helping people heal from trauma, not just talk about it forever.

My approach is different: I use specific techniques that help your brain and body release what they've been holding onto, often in months rather than years.

How I Work Differently

Instead of asking "how does that make you feel?" week after week, I use specialized methods that actively help your brain reprocess difficult memories and experiences:

  • EMDR, ART, and Brainspotting use eye movements or focused attention to help traumatic memories lose their grip on you. It sounds unusual, but it works. These techniques help your brain file away difficult experiences in the past, where they belong.

  • I also address how trauma shows up in your body; the tension, anxiety, or numbness that talking by itself can’t always express, using somatic therapy approaches.

Who I Work With

I specialize in helping:

Where I Practice

What You Can Expect

Because of the modalities I use, many of my clients start feeling real relief within the first few sessions. You won't be in therapy with me for years unless you choose to be. My goal is to help you:

  • Stop being ambushed by upsetting memories, anxiety, or panic

  • Sleep better and feel calmer in your own body

  • Genuinely enjoy your life, not just survive it

  • Feel free to make your own choices in life, rather than trauma or anxiety choosing for you

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My Background & Training

I earned my psychology degree from Dominican University of California and my Master of Social Work from California State University, Fresno, where I also published research on clinical practice. I've been licensed in California as an LCSW (CA LCSW license #68507). I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Clinical (LCSWC #34104) in Maryland. I can also see clients located in Idaho (ID telehealth registration #9371387).

But the degrees were just the beginning. I’ve spent years pursuing specialized trauma training because general therapy wasn't enough for the people I wanted to help. I've completed extensive training in:

  • EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and Brainspotting

  • Treating moral injury: the particular experience healthcare workers have when systems fail them or their patients

  • Somatic approaches for trauma stored in the body

  • Shame-focused trauma work

  • Even eco-anxiety and climate distress, because collective trauma affects us all

I continue learning because trauma treatment keeps evolving, and you deserve the most effective approaches available.

Stop managing trauma. Start healing it. Contact me below to book your first session.

Format: Video therapy sessions from the comfort of your home

Scheduling: I offer early morning sessions, evening appointments, plus occasional weekends

Location: I can see you if you’re located anywhere in California, Idaho, or Maryland

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Contact Me

Please complete this form and I’ll be back in touch via email, text, or phone within 1-2 business days.

Call or Text

855-564-3338

Email

sverhines.lcsw@gmail.com

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 28, Wilton, CA 95693
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