Peggy Fair
Experienced LCSW guiding practical change
LCSW North Carolina
- Experience
- 40 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Peggy
Peggy Fair is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 40 years of experience in mental health care. She began her career in Virginia as an emergency mental health therapist in a community clinic, later moving to North Carolina where she spent many years in inpatient psychiatry.
Background and approach
Her work history also includes 14 years providing mental health services to Marines and Navy servicemembers, alongside a long-running part-time independent practice focused on couples work and relationship issues. Now semi-retired and living in Florida to be near family and the beach, she continues to offer therapeutic support drawing on an integrative approach.
She helps clients clarify goals and learn practical tools to manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting and caregiver stress, and other life changes. Peggy emphasizes collaboration, helping people define the changes they want and equipping them with skills to reach those goals.
Her clinical toolkit includes client-centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness techniques, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-informed work. She maintains regular message contact and aims to respond within 24 hours or less, seven days a week, to support ongoing progress.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access
Peggy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and to practice alternative strategies that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She also employs Client-Centered Therapy, offering empathic listening and support to help people explore their values and goals at their own pace. When appropriate she incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills useful for strong emotion or relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Peggy works with each client to consider presenting concerns, personal goals, and preferences, and then blends methods that best support progress. She aims to help clients try tools and adjust the plan as therapy unfolds so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity while traveling or living apart from a therapist's office, and use different formats for skills practice, check-ins, or deeper sessions according to what works best for the client.
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Experience
40+ years
Licensed
North Carolina
Languages
English