About Bruce
Dr. Bruce Pedigo helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting struggles, addiction, and trauma. He offers support for eating and sleeping problems, attention challenges, anger, self-esteem, career issues, and coping with life changes.
He brings 40 years of clinical experience to his work and holds licenses as a clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist in Florida. He listens for each person’s story and starts by understanding what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clearing patterns that get in the way of connection and daily functioning. He aims for practical steps clients can use between meetings. Dr.
Pedigo blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. He also draws on attachment-based and mindfulness approaches when helpful. Those methods are used to build coping skills, change unhelpful thoughts and improve emotional regulation.
He believes many child and adolescent concerns are tied to relationship breakdowns, and he looks at the relational context around those issues. He also works with adoption and foster care matters, attachment challenges, autism spectrum issues, and disruptive mood concerns when they appear in a person’s story.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Dr. Pedigo practices in Florida and holds the following licenses: FL LCSW SW1455 and FL LMFT MT1008.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversations and reflective exercises to identify attachment patterns and improve communication and trust with others. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. In virtual sessions this often looks like setting small tasks between meetings and reviewing what changed.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals, symptoms, and daily routines and then recommend strategies from attachment work, CBT, or client-centered care. Together they adjust methods as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online formats give practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues when needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, tracking progress, or continuing skills practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that target relationships, thoughts, and emotional regulation.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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