David S Summers

Finding the right counselor or therapist can be a daunting task. David Summers is located in Denver, Colorado. David is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC), certified as a reliable coder of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) trained and certified with Dr. Mary Main and Dr. Eric Hesse at UC Berkeley AAI training institute, and has years of experience in in the fields of addiction/recovery and mental health care. Having both inpatient residential & outpatient care experience, he seeks to help people find therapeutic solutions, utilizing a wide assortment of modalities and approaches. From the disease model of addiction, we know that there is both a genetic and an environmental component to addiction and that both can change brain chemistry and structure. Early attachment deficits have been shown to be correlated with many addictions. The Adult Attachment Interview has been an important contribution to modern attachment study. Proper administration and scoring of the AAI requires extensive training. Many professionals claim to be “attachment experts” but very few mental health care professionals have received training.