About Peggy
Peggy Slusarski greets people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or difficult life transitions. She focuses on helping individuals who are worried about self-esteem, relationship communication, or the lasting effects of trauma and abuse. Her tone is direct and practical, aiming to make therapy feel manageable and straightforward.
Peggy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 31 years of experience in Florida. She meets people where they are and works at a pace that feels right for each person.
How Peggy works
Sessions center on clear goals and everyday strategies that can be used between meetings. Her work covers a wide range of concerns. Clients bring issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, and problems tied to chronic illness or caregiving stress.
She also addresses separations, commitment worries, and ongoing mood or dissociative symptoms. Peggy draws on a mix of practical approaches. She uses techniques that help change unhelpful thinking and behavior, build emotional skills, and clarify personal values.
Therapy sessions often involve talking through patterns, practicing new ways to cope, and planning small steps toward change. The aim is to help people feel steadier and more in control of daily life. Peggy emphasizes collaboration and clear next steps, so clients leave sessions with things to try between appointments.
Peggy lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, values-based steps toward those goals. It helps when unwanted thoughts or feelings get in the way of living a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety and depression. It works well for symptom-driven problems and for building coping strategies. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop healthier ways of relating and regulating emotion.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest what to try first. That plan can be adjusted as progress is made, so the process stays collaborative and tailored.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection and quick touchpoints between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that focus on skills, values, and emotional connection.
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