About Peggy
Peggy Winsman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She practices in Connecticut and works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. Peggy prefers a client-centered approach so people feel heard and respected in sessions.
She pays attention to each person's strengths and priorities and helps set practical goals that suit daily life. Her work often combines cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and dialectical behavior strategies to manage tough emotions.
How Peggy works
She also uses mindfulness practices to build calm and focus, and motivational interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck. Peggy takes a broad view of health, so she may include discussion of medical status, nutrition, and physical activity when relevant. That can help when chronic pain, illness, or other health issues affect mood and coping.
People come to her for a range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, addiction or smoking cessation, intimacy-related issues, and challenges connected to parenting or young adulthood. She also addresses codependency, dissociation, impulsivity, and compassion fatigue. Peggy aims for short, clear sessions with practical steps to try between meetings.
She adapts the approach to each person’s needs and focuses on what will help them move forward.
Peggy lists 9 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.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Peggy uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on what matters most to the person. That approach emphasizes listening, validating concerns, and shaping goals together so each session feels relevant.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT offers concrete tools and exercises that adapt well to video or phone sessions and can be practiced between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to manage intense emotions and improve coping. DBT teaches breathing, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation techniques that can be coached in real time during online sessions.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and try different strategies to see what fits best. Sessions often include homework or short practices to apply between meetings so progress continues outside scheduled time.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and exercises that need visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Messaging and live chat are helpful for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer appointments.
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