Gia SeutterLCSW

Gia Seutter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience practicing in Oregon. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, recover from trauma and abuse, navigate relationship challenges, and cope with grief and life changes. Gia aims to meet people where they are and treat them with respect and compassion.

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then tailors conversation and plans to each person's needs. Sessions are practical and grounded, with attention to small steps that fit into everyday life. Gia encourages clients to build skills they can use between meetings.

Over two decades of work has given her a wide view of common life stresses. She has supported people dealing with adoption and foster care concerns, aging and geriatric matters, chronic illness and pain, and family-of-origin issues. She also addresses communication problems, codependency, and separation or divorce topics.

Gia draws on a mix of approaches to match the person in front of her. She uses attachment-informed ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavior techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and mindfulness practices. Together these methods help with managing emotions, improving relationships, and changing unhelpful patterns.

If you are considering therapy during pregnancy, childbirth, or the early parenting period, Gia can help you talk through stressors and transitions and plan steps that feel doable.

How Gia blends proven approaches for online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape present patterns. It helps people notice how they form connection and how to create safer, more predictable responses in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete tools to shift them, which is useful for anxiety and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help with managing strong emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences, and together they will choose which methods to try. That collaborative process lets the plan change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, avoid travel, or have shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people continue momentum during life transitions such as pregnancy, childbirth, or moves. Talk with the therapist about what will work best for scheduling, session length, and how to use therapeutic tools between meetings.