Dr. Bruce Pedigo
Experienced family therapist focused on relationships
- Credentials
- LCSW, LMFT
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bruce
Dr. Bruce Pedigo helps families and parents handle stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and relationship struggles. He works with issues like trauma, grief, addictions, ADHD, and mood disorders.
He talks with parents and caregivers about immediate concerns and practical steps they can use at home. Dr. Pedigo holds both the Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) credentials and brings forty years of experience to his work.
Background and approach
He believes child and teen problems usually involve family patterns. He looks for what in the family is keeping a problem going. Sessions often focus on how family relationships can change to reduce conflict and support healing.
His style is straightforward and compassionate. He listens to each person’s story and helps families find concrete ways to talk differently and solve problems. He emphasizes repair of relationships and practical skills parents can try between sessions.
Dr. Pedigo uses several evidence-based methods to guide his work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships. Mindfulness techniques and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills support emotion regulation and stress management. He works with a wide range of concerns including adoption and foster care issues, autism spectrum matters, blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, and substance problems.
His background in child, youth, and family studies informs how he combines individual and family-focused work. Sessions are offered in English and take place with clients across Florida.
Therapeutic approaches and online family support
Dr. Pedigo draws on approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps families rebuild trust and security. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior to reduce anxiety, depression, and conflict.He also uses Client-Centered techniques to make space for each family member’s perspective and to collaborate on goals. Figuring out the right mix of approaches is part of the process. He works together with clients to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible for busy families. These options let parents and teens meet from home, fit sessions around school and work, and use shorter or different formats when needed. The format can be adjusted as therapy progresses to match what helps the family most.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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