Dr. Bruce Pedigo, LCSW, LMFT
Experienced therapist focusing on relationships and recovery
About Bruce
Dr. Bruce Pedigo helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, depression, and addictions.
Background and approach
He also supports concerns such as parenting strain, grief, intimacy issues, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, and career frustration. Dr.
Pedigo brings a calm, direct approach and aims to listen first and respond with practical steps. He draws on four decades of clinical work to guide conversations about how problems started and what can change now.
Sessions focus on clear goals, improved communication, and skills that can be used between meetings. He pays attention to family connections and how relationships shape a person’s struggles.
Dr. Pedigo holds a Doctorate and maintains licenses as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT.
He has wide experience with child, adolescent, and relationship concerns and uses that background to inform treatment choices. He values hearing each person’s story and treats that history as important information for planning care.
His style combines compassionate listening with practical tools from evidence-based approaches. He uses client-centered conversation alongside techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness work.
For people needing stronger emotion skills, elements of dialectical behavior work are introduced to manage distress. Dr.
Pedigo practices in Florida and offers sessions in English. He aims to help people find clearer direction, better daily routines, and healthier ways of relating to others.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based therapy looks at how past and current relationships shape emotions and behavior. Online sessions use conversation and practical exercises to strengthen connection patterns and improve trust in relationships.Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. In virtual work this means the therapist follows the client's pace and helps clarify goals through steady, empathetic dialogue.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Online CBT often includes short exercises, thought records, and homework that can be reviewed during video or messaging sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining attachment insights with CBT or adding mindfulness and emotion regulation tools over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstration of skills. Phone sessions suit people with low bandwidth or who prefer no camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or shorter coaching-style exchanges between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines.
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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