About Peggy
Peggy Fair brings four decades of clinical social work to her practice. She spent the early years in Virginia as an emergency mental health therapist, then moved to North Carolina where she worked in inpatient psychiatry for 16 years. More recently she supported Marines and Navy servicemembers as a mental health therapist for 14 years.
She maintains the title Licensed Clinical Social Worker, often shortened to LCSW. Her approach is practical and goal-focused.
Background and approach
She helps people set clear, realistic goals and teaches skills to reach them. Sessions often focus on problem-solving, coping strategies, and improving communication. Peggy describes herself as an integrative therapist who draws on multiple methods to fit each person's needs.
She has substantial experience helping people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and relationship challenges. Peggy also addresses parenting concerns, intimacy issues, career stress, bipolar disorder challenges, and life transitions. Additional areas include care-giver stress, blended family problems, codependency, and infidelity.
Peggy used to split time between inpatient work, military mental health, and a long-running evening independent practice for couples. That varied history shaped a flexible style that can be steady and direct when needed, and gentle when people are fragile. She emphasizes tools people can use outside sessions.
She checks messages several times a day, seven days a week, and aims to reply within 24 hours. For many people, that responsiveness helps them stay engaged between visits.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a collaborative relationship. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk, be heard, and clarify personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want structured strategies and homework to practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills. It can be useful for intense emotions, relationship conflicts, and problems with impulsive behavior.
Peggy will work with each person to find which approach or combination fits best. Figuring out the right path is a collaborative process that begins with your goals, needs, and preferences, and may change as work progresses.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging offers flexibility for different days and situations. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel, or family schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English