About Peggy
Peggy Winsman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience in Connecticut. She has spent decades helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Peggy emphasizes a warm, listening-first approach so people feel heard from the first session.
She often brings attention to physical health when it affects mood and coping. That can mean talking about sleep, pain, activity, or nutrition alongside emotions.
Background and approach
Peggy uses straightforward tools and conversations to help people manage symptoms and day-to-day challenges. Her style is client-centered. She focuses on each person's strengths and practical steps they can try between sessions.
Motivational ideas are used when someone wants help changing a habit, such as smoking or vaping cessation, or addressing addictive behaviors. Clinical methods she uses include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas, along with mindfulness practices that teach simple ways to calm the nervous system.
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people understand patterns that repeat in relationships and life choices. Over the years Peggy has worked with people facing grief, parenting stress, anger, compassion fatigue, chronic pain and health issues, ADHD, dissociation, and young adult concerns. She aims to tailor sessions to each person's situation and goals, helping them take manageable steps forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection. Online sessions use that same stance - the therapist centers the person's concerns and adapts pacing and goals to the individual's needs. This helps when someone is feeling anxious or unsure about starting therapy.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions, CBT often includes brief exercises, worksheets, and between-session practice to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skill-building around emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help with intense emotions and impulsivity.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. That plan can change as progress is made, so the person helps shape what happens in therapy.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue, live chat for short check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy day and to keep working consistently toward clearer coping and reduced anxiety.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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