About Peggy
Rev. Peggy Ann "Serena" Hemmer helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, depression, parenting strains, and identity concerns. She works with clients on intimacy issues, sleep disruption, anger, self-esteem, career change, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Serena brings a calm, practical stance and focuses on helping people find workable steps forward. Serena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW practicing in Florida. She has more than two decades of experience in behavioral health and social work.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in county and state mental health and substance abuse services before moving into independent practice. Her approach blends talk therapy with practical skills. She uses methods that include attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and strategies from dialectical behavior therapy.
She also draws on existential ideas and relationship-focused methods to address how people connect and make meaning. Sessions look at daily routines, communication habits, and coping skills. Serena offers guidance to build better sleep habits, manage mood swings, and handle intense emotions.
She also supports people navigating caregiving stress, blended family challenges, chronic illness, grief, and major life transitions. Serena has a long history of using creative and body-aware methods in her work. She weaves expressive arts, movement, and coaching when helpful, and she respects clients' spiritual questions.
She aims to help each person discover practical answers that fit their life and values.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how people form close bonds and respond in relationships; online sessions use discussion and exercises to improve trust, communication, and emotional safety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve sleep through small, structured steps. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help manage intense emotions and conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and then tailor a mix of methods. That may include skills practice, short exercises between sessions, and occasionally creative or movement-based tasks when they fit the client's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or work better when a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or coaching-style support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English