About Peggy
Peggy Whelan meets people where they are and focuses on what matters most to them. She listens first, then offers practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety. Peggy is direct but warm and helps people find clearer choices when life feels hard.
Peggy holds a Master of Arts and is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - in Massachusetts. She brings 33 years of experience to sessions and adjusts pace to each person.
How Peggy works
That experience informs how she blends conversation, skill-building, and emotional support. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, addictions, grief, and trauma. Peggy also helps with parenting strain, career stress, anger, and attention-related difficulties.
She addresses aging and caregiver stress as well as end-of-life and hospice-related worries. Peggy uses approaches that emphasize connection and practical change. She draws on attachment-focused work to examine how relationships shape feelings.
She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Emotion-focused methods help process strong emotions that can block progress. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
People can expect straightforward feedback, skill practice, and a plan for coping between appointments. The aim is clearer thinking and more manageable days, not jargon. Peggy works with English-speaking clients in Massachusetts and online formats are available.
Peggy lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can use this approach to identify patterns that affect connections and to practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It works well through video or phone sessions where homework and thought records can be reviewed together. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on safely naming and processing strong emotions to improve emotional contact in relationships and self-understanding.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues you bring, then recommend an approach or mix of approaches. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as people try different tools and notice what helps.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit times with lower bandwidth or where a camera isn’t wanted. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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