About Peggy
Peggy Cahue-Kuipers is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 16 years of experience. She uses a calm, person-centered style to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. Peggy focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier for clients.
She helps with a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, and trauma and abuse. Parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and career transitions are also areas she addresses.
Background and approach
Peggy also works with issues tied to family of origin, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and feelings of emptiness or guilt. Peggy draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. In sessions she focuses on clear, usable strategies - learning skills, testing small changes, and adjusting plans as needed.
Conversations are grounded and straightforward so parents can take steps between sessions. Her practice in Michigan is informed by a holistic view of wellbeing. She aims to treat people with dignity and respect while helping them identify goals and practical next steps.
Her work combines skill-building with attention to values and relationships. Peggy describes therapy as a process that takes time and commitment. She supports people who are willing to ask for and receive help and guides them toward sustainable change.
Therapeutic approaches that adapt to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-based action. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and adjusting to life changes by teaching committed steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors together and uses simple exercises to change patterns that keep problems going. It often helps with depression, worry, sleep issues, and addictive behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and relies on listening, empathy, and collaboration to build trust and clarify goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan so it fits the client’s life and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and guided skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skill coaching, and flexible on-the-go support. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and build steady progress around a busy schedule.
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What this therapist 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
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