Graduate Audrey Summers Serves Native Americans in Los Angeles

Audrey Summers is a Native American raised in nearby South Pasadena. Before coming to Fuller, Summers worked in marketing and advertising, and later as a paralegal secretary in family law. It was through that experience that Summers began to sense God calling her into marriage-and-family counseling, serving the Native American population in Los Angeles County, in particular.

Summers entered Fuller’s School of Psychology in the fall of 2001 because of its “strong marriage-and- family program, and its tradition of integrating theology and psychology,” she says. “I’ve always been one to seek out the best education that I could get. And I really felt that Fuller would provide that to me.” She proved an excellent student and earned Fuller’s All Seminary Ethnic Scholarship in 2002 and the Ronald D. Lunceford Memorial Scholarship (awarded by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists) in 2003.

Summers is graduating with her M.S. in marriage-and-family therapy and is already working as an outpatient therapist for the Seven Generations Child and Family Counseling Services, part of United American Indian Involvement, Inc. This counseling program was developed to meet the growing mental health needs of American Indian children and their families in L.A. County. It currently offers individual and family therapy, crisis intervention, parent/child advocacy, child and group assessment, dual diagnosis, and traditional healing.

“I always knew this is what I was going to do,” Summers says. “I understand the Native American struggle in so many ways. I have a special sensitivity to the struggles they have with God and how God has been presented to them for generations. Because of my sensitivity, I always knew this would be the population I would serve. And God has got me on a fast track.”

Audrey Summers and her husband, Pete, have one child, Cody, age 3.

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