About Peggy
Peggy Slusarski welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or painful past experiences. She is a licensed clinical social worker with long experience and a calm, straightforward style. Peggy focuses on helping people find clearer direction and steadier footing in daily life.
Peggy listens first, then helps clients name the problems that cause the most strain. She uses practical strategies to reduce strong emotions and improve communication.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build small, usable skills that fit into a busy life. Over 31 years in practice, Peggy has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, loss, and the lasting effects of attachment wounds. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and concerns around abandonment and codependency.
Her approach draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, acceptance and commitment tools, attachment-based work, and a client-centered stance. That mix lets her tailor sessions to what each person needs rather than using one fixed method. Peggy practices in Florida as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
She offers appointments in formats that suit different schedules, and she helps people set realistic steps toward calmer days and clearer relationships.
How therapy approaches meet your life online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when worry, low mood, or avoidance get in the way of living the life you want. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, helping people understand trust, closeness, and conflict in relationships. It is useful for those who struggle with connection, fear of abandonment, or repeated relationship problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Peggy will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their situation, goals, and preferences. That way sessions focus on what helps most, whether teaching coping skills, exploring attachment history, or practicing new ways to communicate.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when travel is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English