About Peter
Dr. Peter Dell helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and trauma. He also supports those dealing with sleep problems, anger, self-esteem concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Dr. Peter Dell is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in Florida with 22 years of experience. He aims for straightforward, respectful conversations.
Sessions focus on listening first, then building a plan together. He adapts the pace and tasks to what each person needs.
Background and approach
The approach is practical and focused on real-life changes. In sessions he mixes several methods to match the problem at hand. Clients may work on understanding attachment patterns, practicing skills for managing strong emotions, or changing unhelpful thoughts and habits.
The work often includes small exercises to use between meetings. Dr. Dell takes a collaborative stance.
He invites people to set goals and to check progress regularly. The tone is warm but goal-directed, with attention to both feelings and daily routines. He has helped people with a broad range of concerns from chronic illness and caregiver stress to communication and commitment issues.
His background includes long-term work in clinical settings and community practice across Florida. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
How attachment, emotion work, and skills training translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people see patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect current stress. It can be useful when relationship fears, abandonment, or commitment concerns drive distress.Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and shifting strong feelings. It supports people who struggle with intimacy-related issues, grief, or trauma by naming emotions and trying new ways to respond.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful cycles. It often helps with anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and anger by giving clear skills to practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try out methods, and adjust the plan as progress is reviewed. That collaborative attitude makes it easier to find what works for each situation.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and emotion work, phone can be faster when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work when in different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina
- Languages
- English