About Bruce
Dr. Bruce Pedigo helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and phobias. He is Dr.
Bruce Pedigo, a clinician with forty years of experience and dual credentials as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He works with many everyday struggles including sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, ADHD, and coping with life changes. His approach is straightforward.
He listens first to each person's story and asks what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings. He uses everyday language and keeps explanations simple so busy parents can follow along. Dr.
Pedigo draws on several well-known methods to guide treatment. He uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape reactions today. He also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and dialectical skills are included when helpful to manage strong emotions and improve focus. He brings a long history of work with individuals, couples, and youth, and emphasizes repairing relationships when that fits a person's goals.
His faith gives him a clear sense of compassion and concern, and he treats religious beliefs as part of who many clients are rather than something to set aside. Clients should expect a calm, patient tone and a focus on practical change. Dr.
Pedigo aims to help people move from feeling stuck to finding clearer steps forward.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and reactions. In online sessions this looks like talking through relationship patterns and practicing new ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different responses. Online CBT often uses short between-session exercises and brief check-ins to track progress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, strengths, and daily life. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than following one fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers typing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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