About Bruce
Dr. Bruce Pedigo helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and trauma. He is a Florida-based clinician with four decades of experience and holds LCSW and LMFT credentials.
He focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control. He listens for each person’s story and values hearing how life has shaped them. Sessions aim to untangle current problems and the relationship patterns that keep them repeating.
Background and approach
He uses straightforward conversation and practical coping skills rather than jargon. Dr. Pedigo often looks at how individual concerns connect to family relationships.
He believes problems like anxiety, attention differences, or behavior issues rarely happen alone, so he explores those connections with clients. That helps identify next steps that make sense for daily life. His approach blends talk-based support with skill-building tools.
He draws on cognitive tools to change unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness to manage strong emotions, and attachment ideas to improve closeness and trust. Sessions are paced to the person and focus on small, doable changes. With forty years of practice, he brings wide experience with grief, addictions, parenting challenges, and mood concerns.
He describes his work as compassionate and grounded in his values, and he strives to be present and honest with the people he sees.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Pedigo draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. He also uses Client-Centered Therapy, offering a respectful, listening-focused stance that helps people feel heard and make their own choices about change. Attachment-Based ideas are used to examine how relationship patterns affect emotional life and to help people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That collaborative planning means sessions can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client talk face to face. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work well for brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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