- Attachment-based work
- CBT and DBT skills
- Mindfulness practices
About Gia
Gia Seutter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Oregon with 20 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes. Her work also touches on adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, attachment issues, chronic pain and illness, codependency, communication problems, and related areas.
Gia frames sessions around straightforward conversation and practical steps. She listens for what matters most and helps people talk through specific problems. Sessions focus on understanding how past experiences affect current feelings and choices. The emphasis is on clear goals and small changes that fit day-to-day life.
Her background includes long-term clinical work across varied settings, giving her familiarity with complex situations like dissociation, domestic violence, divorce and separation, and fatherhood issues. She draws on several well-known approaches to guide work with relationships and trauma-related concerns. Gia aims to help people sort through guilt, shame, and regret tied to family, faith, or past actions.
In practice she uses direct conversation, listening, and skill-building. Clients can expect a mix of tracking patterns, learning coping strategies, and trying new ways to handle difficult moments. Progress is measured in concrete shifts - clearer thinking, fewer overwhelming reactions, and better communication.
Sessions are offered in English in Oregon. Gia holds the LCSW credential and combines experience with practical methods to address everyday problems and longer-standing pain.
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current trust and closeness. Online sessions can use that focus to trace how past attachments affect present feelings and actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns. It helps with anxiety, grief, and repetitive guilt by practicing different thinking and behavior experiments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Gia will review your needs, goals, and preferences and help decide which method or combination will fit best. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as you notice what helps and what does not.
Confirm the session formats offered before booking, as the biography does not specify formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, or remove the need to travel. Therapists often blend skills teaching, conversation, and mindfulness exercises in remote sessions so therapy can fit into everyday life and responsibilities.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Oregon
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes, plus related issues such as attachment and communication problems.
How would she approach shame or guilt issues?
She uses conversational work and skills training to help people name and sit with difficult feelings, then practice concrete ways to respond differently in daily life.
What experience does she bring to this work?
Gia has 20 years of professional experience working in clinical settings with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, grief, and complex relationship issues.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She holds an LCSW credential and practices in Oregon.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and what about cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.