Peggy Cahue-Kuipers
Calm, practical support for stressful times
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Peggy
Peggy Cahue-Kuipers is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, hands-on support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship troubles, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Peggy uses clear, straightforward methods so clients understand next steps.
She speaks English and conducts sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with proven tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused work.
Background and approach
That combination helps people notice patterns, practice new skills, and rebuild connections with others. She also draws on acceptance and commitment techniques and elements from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage strong emotions and stay focused on values. Peggy emphasizes practical goals.
Conversations explore what is working, what is getting in the way, and what small changes feel doable. She can help with grief, intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating issues, anger, career shifts, and coping with trauma and abuse. Her additional interests include blended family issues, codependency, communication and control problems, family of origin concerns, and aging and geriatric issues.
She has training in EMDR and includes it when appropriate as part of a broader plan. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and costs vary with location and therapist availability. To begin, a prospective client selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules based on therapist availability.
Peggy frames therapy as a collaborative effort and invites people who are ready to make changes to reach out.
Using evidence-based approaches in online therapy
Peggy often combines cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused work in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and many everyday struggles. Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) centers on understanding feelings and improving emotional connection. It can help with relationship strains, intimacy-related issues, grief, and managing strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the early work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she and the client decide together which methods to prioritize and adjust over time, so the plan fits real life and feels achievable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Those options make scheduling more flexible and let clients continue work from home or while traveling within the region. Many people find short chat or messaging exchanges helpful between longer sessions to practice skills and stay on track.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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