About Peter
Peter Mittiga is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low mood, or difficult life changes. His approach aims to make conversations feel calm and unhurried so people can speak honestly about what matters to them.
He has twelve years of experience in the mental health field. That work includes supporting people with depression, trauma-related concerns, mood disorders, workplace stress, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
He also addresses issues like grief, self-esteem, attachment concerns, and financial or career stressors. Peter leans on client-centered therapy, which puts the person’s experience at the center of each session. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
When appropriate, he draws on dialectical behavior approaches for emotion management and EMDR for trauma-related memories. Sessions are meant to be collaborative and practical. Peter helps people set clear goals, practice skills between sessions, and measure progress over time.
He frames work as a conversation rather than a lecture, with space to try new ways of coping. People who want straightforward, steady support often find this style useful. He aims to make therapy approachable for someone juggling work, family demands, and everyday stressors.
Peter works with adults who want to reduce anxiety, improve mood, or better manage life transitions.
How Peter’s Methods Fit Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s needs and priorities, with the therapist listening closely and shaping sessions around what the client brings. This approach helps people feel heard and decide practical next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) targets distressing memories by pairing focused recall with guided attention, which can reduce the intensity of trauma-related reactions.Choosing a method is a shared decision. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most comfortable. Together they will try approaches and adjust the plan as needed to find what helps most.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or a faster way to touch base on progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while still using client-centered, CBT, or EMDR-based techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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