Ronena Summers, LMFT
Experienced LMFT focused on relationships and recovery
About Ronena
Ronena Summers is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of professional experience. She focuses on day-to-day concerns like stress and anxiety, along with longer-standing struggles such as depression and trauma.
Background and approach
Her work is aimed at people who want practical help for relationship and family tensions as well as personal healing. She creates a calm space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with an emphasis on clear steps people can try between meetings. Ronena listens for patterns in relationships and emotions and helps clients spot small changes that make a difference.
Her approach draws on methods that help people change unhelpful thinking, build stronger emotional awareness, and commit to values-based actions. She also uses ideas that examine how early attachment and family history shape current reactions.
The focus is on what matters now and what can be done next. Ronena works with issues such as abandonment, blended family concerns, communication problems, infidelity, and grief related to illness or end-of-life care.
She also supports people coping with chronic pain, cancer, and caregiving stress. Conversations are paced to match each person's needs and readiness for change.
For someone feeling overwhelmed by family conflict or personal loss, Ronena offers steady guidance and practical techniques. She helps clients set realistic goals and track small wins as they move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and managing ongoing stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns, and it helps people understand and change how they relate to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ronena collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She may mix ideas from different approaches and will explain why a strategy is suggested and how to try it in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a full conversation with visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief touchpoints possible between sessions or when typing feels simpler than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English