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Hello, my name is Summer Carter, LCSW, MBA, and I am passionate about helping individuals navigate life’s challenges with compassion, hope, and support. With experience in mental health, trauma-informed care, emotional wellness, grief support, and life transitions, I strive to create a safe and empowering space where clients feel heard, respected, and valued.

I believe that everyone’s story matters, and no one should have to face difficult seasons alone.

• I provide a warm, collaborative, and culturally responsive space for clients navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, OCD, and major life transitions. I understand that your mental health is shaped by more than symptoms alone—your culture, identity, relationships, experiences, and environment all matter. I’ll take the time to understand your unique story and strengths while helping you build practical tools, greater resilience, and meaningful change that aligns with your values and goals.

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to invest in your healing and growth today. Whether you’re a newcomer to therapy/counseling or an experienced client, I feel it’s a brave and wonderful thing to do the work of mental-emotional healing. I have worked with clients with a wide range of concerns including depression, stress/anxiety, career challenges, LGBTQ+ related issues, grief and loss and trauma disorder such as PTSD.

I’m a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) and mom of four with a passion for helping people feel balanced, understood, and supported. I earned my nursing degree from Chamberlain University in Chicago and completed my psychiatric graduate training at the University of Kentucky. I’ve been proudly serving patients as a PMHNP since 2022.

I provide care for children (6+), teens, and adults, including parents, professionals, students, and anyone navigating life transitions or emotional challenges. My focus areas include: ADHD, anxiety & panic, depression, bipolar disorders, trauma & PTSD, emotional dysregulation and impulsivity, sleep issues, and mood and behavior concerns in children/teens.

If you are navigating depression, anxiety, or the heavy weight of trauma and PTSD, you don’t have to carry it alone. Whether you are facing a major life transition, struggling with self-esteem, or working through deeply rooted relationship issues, I am here to help you find your footing.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Chicago with over 15 years of experience as a psychotherapist, I specialize in guiding adults and seniors through some of life's most complex and vulnerable chapters. I offer dedicated, specialized care for perinatal mental health—supporting you through the intense emotional landscape of pregnancy and postpartum life. I also provide a deeply compassionate space for those navigating the unique challenges of acute and chronic pain, as well as individuals confronting end-of-life fears and grief.

I specialize in working with women in the reproductive, pregnancy, prenatal, postpartum and menopause timeframe of their lives. This is a time in a woman's life that is often labeled as blissful and exciting but it can be one of the most challenging transitions a woman experiences. I aim to normalize this complex experience, and help you manage through this adjustment. I have personal experience going through my own struggles with pregnancy, and perinatal mental health with 2 children. This has helped me become a more empathic, passionate and dedicated women's. My goal is for clients to feel heard, respected and unconditionally supported in their adjustment to parenting. I very much value the time that the women who are taking the time to give themselves an outlet, self-care, and an open forum to be supported by another mother. Please know you are not alone, you are not to blame, and you will get better

You might be carrying things you have never said out loud, especially if you have spent your life feeling like you had to explain or defend who you are before anyone would really listen. I work with young adults and adolescents, particularly those from BIPOC backgrounds, who are looking for a space where they do not have to translate themselves first. My approach is warm and direct, and I bring cultural responsiveness and faith sensitivity into our work because I believe healing should honor all of who you are, not just the parts that are easiest to talk about.