About Peggy
Peggy Harless helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and life changes. She works with concerns like trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Peggy also addresses ADHD, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and parenting challenges within blended families. Peggy uses practical tools to make sessions useful from the first meeting.
She leans on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness to help clients notice patterns and try different behaviors. Sessions are straightforward and down to earth, with clear steps you can use between meetings.
Her background includes five years of clinical work across outpatient clinics and inpatient psychiatric settings. That range gives her experience with both short-term crisis work and longer-term struggles.
She draws on Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy to help people clarify values and reframe difficult stories. Peggy holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential in Georgia, listed as LMFT.
She offers sessions in English and does not take international clients. Her style is practical rather than overly sentimental, and she aims to meet people where they are.
Outside work she reads and plays video games, which she says helps her relate to a variety of people. If you want a direct, grounded therapist who focuses on real strategies, Peggy may be a good fit.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. Online ACT sessions focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and practicing value-based steps that can be tried between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy examines patterns of thought and behavior to find straightforward changes that relieve anxiety or low mood; online CBT often uses exercises and homework to track progress between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Peggy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. She treats therapy as a collaboration and will adjust methods based on how things go in early sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer different practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more nuance is helpful. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging let people check in with brief updates or use written exercises between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let clients pick the format that fits their routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English