About Peggy
Peggy Winsman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of practice in Connecticut. She has spent decades helping people navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Peggy aims to make therapy a place where clients feel heard and supported from the first session.
Peggy uses a client-centered style that focuses on each person's needs and goals. She pays attention to the body as well as thoughts and feelings, so Somatic work may be part of sessions when it seems helpful.
Background and approach
Peggy also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness to help people manage tough symptoms day to day. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people facing chronic pain, illness, or disability and helps with smoking or vaping cessation.
Peggy works with individuals who struggle with impulsivity, dissociation, attention challenges, and young adult issues. In sessions, Peggy often blends talk-based work with attention to physical responses and practical skills. She may discuss health and wellness factors such as nutrition, sleep, and activity when those things affect mood and coping.
The approach is flexible and oriented toward what helps the person feel steadier in daily life. Peggy brings a calm, steady presence and a strengths-based outlook. She encourages small, manageable steps and encourages clients to set goals that fit their lives.
Therapy is shaped around each person's pace and preferences.
How somatic and skills-based work translates to online therapy
Peggy often blends Somatic work, Client-Centered therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that fit each person. Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and simple movement or breathing to help people notice and reduce physical stress. Client-Centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and the client's own goals so the person leads the pace and focus. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and actions influence mood and teaches clear strategies for changing unhelpful patterns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Peggy works together with each client to decide what feels most useful. She checks in about what helps and adjusts methods based on needs, goals, and comfort level so therapy stays practical and collaborative.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. These options make it easier to keep regular contact, practice skills between meetings, and choose the format that feels most comfortable. The variety of formats supports continuity of care and flexible, ongoing progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English