About Peggy
Peggy Winsman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience in mental health care. She draws on a long career helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Peggy keeps things straightforward and practical in sessions so people feel heard and supported from the first meeting.
She often integrates attention to physical health into therapy. That can include talking about medical issues, nutrition, and activity when those things affect mood or daily functioning.
Background and approach
Peggy also helps people with addiction concerns, smoking or vaping cessation, and challenges tied to chronic pain or illness. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Peggy uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each individual's needs, and she pulls from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build coping skills.
She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques when those methods match a person's goals. In sessions Peggy works with people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, intimacy concerns, anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, dissociation, and impulsivity. She brings practical strategies and calm guidance to day-to-day problems as well as deeper trauma work.
Peggy practices in Connecticut and conducts therapy in English. She aims to create an honest conversation about what will help most, then together they choose steps that feel realistic and manageable.
Therapeutic tools for online care
Client-Centered Therapy keeps the focus on the person and their priorities. In practice that means the therapist asks about what matters most, listens closely, and shapes sessions to match the client's goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small, practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety or lift mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotion and improving everyday coping when stress or impulsivity becomes hard to handle.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and choose strategies together based on symptoms, personal preferences, and what feels workable. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to short-term needs and longer-term goals.
Online therapy with Peggy uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video suits deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins or steady support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English