About Peggy
Peggy Slusarski is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience in Florida. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or past trauma. She listens closely and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day.
Her work often centers on relationship patterns, communication problems, and self-esteem. She also supports people facing caregiver strain, chronic illness or pain, and life changes like separation or adoption-related challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and grounded in what matters most to the client. Peggy uses a mix of approaches to match the person in front of her. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and ACT strategies that focus on values and committed action.
Attachment-informed ideas help when patterns from early relationships keep showing up in adult life. Over the years she has worked with people dealing with abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and avoidant or dependent personality patterns. Her goal is to help clients notice their patterns, try small changes, and build more reliable ways of coping.
Progress is usually practical rather than theoretical. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person. Peggy supports clients in making concrete plans, practicing new skills between sessions, and checking what works.
The tone is calm, direct, and focused on real-world results.
Practical online approaches that meet daily life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when anxiety or difficult feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce stress and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, and it offers ways to change those patterns over time.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what feels comfortable, then combine methods that fit. That collaborative process includes checking progress and adjusting strategies as needed so the work stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and practicing new skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, follow-up questions, and maintaining momentum between longer appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy part of a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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