Peggy Lingard

Peggy emphasizes practical steps and creativity alongside talk therapy. Her approach favors partnership.

She focuses on listening first and then helping people try small, manageable actions that build confidence. She uses tools from several evidence-based approaches while keeping the client's goals in charge of the work.

Peggy draws on methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and the Gottman Method. She teaches mindfulness and distress-tolerance skills, helps clarify values, and works with practical problem solving.

Sessions often include exercises people can use between meetings. Her background includes training in family systems, divorce mediation, solution-focused and narrative approaches, resilience work, and mindfulness.

She says the relationship between therapist and client is the most important part of change, and she aims to build trust and collaboration from the first session. Peggy is openly lesbian and shares that her family life and multicultural household inform her perspective.

She values curiosity, forgiveness, and honesty in relationships and encourages clients to increase transparency and let go of what no longer works. She meets people where they are and treats them as partners in shaping their path.