About Peter
Dr. Peter Dell helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, grief, and problems with sleep and self-esteem. He brings a calm, respectful tone to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings.
Dr. Dell is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with more than two decades of professional experience in Florida. He listens first and tailors conversations to each person's situation.
Sessions aim to make difficult feelings clearer and to develop workable strategies for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
He draws on approaches that emphasize understanding close relationships, managing emotions, and changing unhelpful thinking patterns. In practice he blends attention to emotional experience with tools for coping. That can mean strengthening how people connect with others, learning skills to tolerate strong feelings, or testing different ways of thinking that reduce anxiety.
He also works with career concerns, compassion fatigue, and long-term illness or caregiving stress. Dr. Dell describes his role as supportive and collaborative.
He helps people set realistic goals and checks in on progress as goals change. The focus is on clear, manageable steps rather than jargon or one-size-fits-all plans. People meet with him by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and international clients may be seen in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows the therapist's availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online work might use conversations to map patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating that reduce anxiety or repeated conflict.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience at the center and uses active listening and empathy to help people find their own solutions. In remote sessions this often looks like reflective conversation, clarifying goals, and pacing the work to what feels manageable.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and test unhelpful thoughts and build practical skills for managing anxiety and mood. In online meetings CBT tools can include thought records, behavioral experiments, and between-session practice tailored to daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the client's goals, and adjust if something is not helping. That conversation is part of early sessions so people know why a certain method is being used.
Online formats offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support quick updates, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment for chronic health concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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