About Peggy
Rev. Peggy Ann "Serena" Hemmer offers help for stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, depression, parenting concerns, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, career shifts, bipolar management, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Serena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW with 21 years of practice based in Florida. Serena takes a straightforward, holistic approach that looks at mind, body, and spirit.
How Peggy works
Sessions focus on practical skills and questions that help people find their own answers. She uses tools from attachment work, cognitive and behavioral methods, and dialectical strategies when those fit a person’s needs. Her background includes long experience in mental health settings and independent practice.
That history informs how she supports people through trauma, family problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and complex relationship issues. She also brings experience helping people address codependency, communication problems, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation. Serena integrates relationship-focused methods such as the Gottman approach when couples work on communication and intimacy.
She also uses expressive and experiential elements at times to help clients access feelings and build new skills. The work aims to be practical and paced to each person’s comfort. In sessions she pairs clinical skill with a reflective, values-aware stance that can include spiritual concerns when clients want that explored.
People who want straightforward, compassionate guidance for life transitions, caregiving burdens, or long-standing emotional patterns often look to her for steady support.
Peggy lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Peggy works with
The areas below are the ones Peggy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and emotional patterns; it helps people understand trust, closeness, and attachment reactions in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep issues. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can help with intense emotions, impulsivity, and relationship conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and situation. That shared decision-making helps tailor sessions for things like caregiving stress, family problems, or coping with life transitions.
Online formats offer flexible ways to work through these approaches. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and relational work. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for focused check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short updates or coaching-style guidance into a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more accessible while keeping the focus on practical progress and skill building.
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