Peggy Fair

Peggy Fair is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 40 years in mental health practice. She spent early years as an emergency mental health therapist in Virginia, then moved to North Carolina three decades ago where she worked in inpatient psychiatry for 16 years. Later she spent 14 years providing mental health care to Marines and Navy servicemembers while maintaining a part-time private practice for 23 years. Her private practice focused on couples in the evenings, helping partners resolve conflicts and build practical coping skills. She calls herself an integrative therapist and draws on a mix of approaches to meet each person's needs. Peggy aims to help people set clear goals and learn tools they can use between sessions. Peggy now describes herself as semi-retired and living in Florida to be near family and the beach. She continues to check messages several times a day, seven days a week, and responds within 24 hours or less. That accessibility helps people arrange care and keep steady momentum toward their goals. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes. She also notes experience with blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and related areas. Peggy uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, mindfulness, and solution-focused ideas. Her style is straightforward and goal-oriented, aiming to give people concrete skills they can use in day-to-day life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own solutions. It’s about building understanding and working at the client’s pace, which suits issues like relationship strain or self-esteem concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior through practical exercises. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and anger by giving clear steps to practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as needs change. That makes sessions more useful and feels less like a one-size-fits-all program.

The profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions helpful because they fit more easily into a workday, cut travel time, and allow short check-ins when needed. Online work also makes it easier to use CBT exercises and mindfulness practices between meetings, so skills can be practiced in everyday life.