About Peggy
Peggy Cahue-Kuipers is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Michigan who uses client-centered methods to help people through stressful periods. She draws from person-centered care alongside cognitive and behavioral approaches to address anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. Her style is straightforward and practical.
Sessions focus on small, doable steps to reduce worry, improve sleep, manage anger, and rebuild self-esteem. She also helps people work through grief, trauma, intimacy questions, and life transitions with focused tools and steady support.
Background and approach
With 16 years of experience, she has worked with a wide range of concerns including family of origin issues, codependency, communication problems, and substance-related struggles. She also supports people facing aging and geriatric matters, avoidant personality patterns, and blended family challenges. Peggy blends approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work.
That mix lets her tailor sessions to a person’s needs, using mindfulness, values work, and skills practice when helpful. Sessions aim to help people build coping skills, clarify goals, and make steady changes over time. She frames therapy as a collaborative process that asks for honesty and effort.
Peggy welcomes conversations about practical next steps and how therapy can fit a person’s life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take action toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to change mood and habits; it is useful for worry, sleep problems, and anger. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) emphasizes understanding and reshaping emotional responses to improve connection and closeness, which can help with relationship and intimacy-related issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Peggy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That may mean practicing mindfulness exercises, learning coping skills from DBT and CBT, or doing values-based ACT work depending on what feels right.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for scheduling and access. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversational work, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for focused check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to follow through on new skills from session to session.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English