About Gage
Gage Peavler is a licensed master social worker who listens carefully and helps people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, depression, and the effects of trauma. He aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so people can use what they learn in daily life. He offers a calm space to talk about worries that feel overwhelming.
Gage helps clients break down big problems into manageable steps. He focuses on clear skills that improve mood, reduce panic, and build coping strategies for difficult moments.
Background and approach
Gage draws on several evidence-informed approaches to shape sessions. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and choose values-based actions. He also brings elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
With five years of clinical experience in Michigan, Gage has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns. His additional focus areas include body image, attachment issues, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and relationship communication problems among others. Sessions can be practical and goal-oriented, with time spent on skills practice, problem solving, and small experiments between meetings.
The aim is to help people feel more able to manage daily life and move toward goals that matter to them.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Gage uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity. He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thought and behavior patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood and to practice new ways of responding.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gage takes a collaborative stance and will help figure out which techniques fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. He adapts methods over time based on what is helpful and what feels doable for the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone can be a simpler check-in with lower bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging supports brief updates or practice between meetings. This range helps people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress going between appointments.
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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