Peggy Slusarski
Experienced Florida LCSW for family concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Peggy
Peggy Slusarski is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and family-related concerns. She writes simply and listens closely. Her style is practical and straightforward, aimed at parents and adults who need clear next steps.
Sessions with Peggy often start by identifying what feels most overwhelming right now. She uses direct conversation to surface patterns that keep problems going. Together clients work on small, doable changes they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Peggy draws on methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to teach skills for managing thoughts and strong emotions. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy strategies are introduced when strong emotion regulation skills are needed.
With 31 years of experience she has cared for people facing trauma, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, chronic illness and caregiver stress. She also helps with communication problems, codependency, and difficult life transitions such as divorce and separation. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Peggy aims to help clients build practical coping tools, improve relationships, and regain a sense of control over daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward what matters despite hard thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and when people feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence mood and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and habits. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy examines relationship patterns formed early in life and how they affect current connections and coping; it can be helpful for people worried about closeness, trust, or communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Peggy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then pick or combine methods in a collaborative way. The choice of approach can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer to meet from home. Sessions are available by video call or phone, and shorter exchanges can take place through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to stay consistent with therapy and to use skills in day-to-day moments where they matter most.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Peggy
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point