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Peggy Wilson

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Peggy Wilson, LPC

Texas

Licensed Professional Counselor - Stress and Anger

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Key details

  • CredentialsLPC
  • LicenseLPC, Texas / 17875
  • NPI1932322716
  • Experience20 years
  • LanguagesEnglish
  • LocationTexas

About

  • ACT concepts
  • CBT strategies
  • Attachment work

About Peggy

Peggy Wilson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. She combines workplace leadership experience with clinical training to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. Peggy also supports clients facing life transitions, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem or coping skills.

Her training in human science, focused on workplace behavior, shapes how she looks at problems. She pays attention to how work roles and past experiences influence present behavior. That perspective is often useful when someone’s job or roles at home are a source of strain.

Peggy helps clients identify patterns that cause repeated problems, such as self-sabotage or old attachment wounds. She uses goal-setting to mark progress and keeps work practical and specific. Sessions tend to focus on increasing awareness so people can change choices that lead to needless conflict or pain.

She draws on several established therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused work, to address thoughts, feelings, and relationship patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas also appear when clients want help with values and committed action. Attachment-based work is used when childhood or relationship history is relevant.

Peggy emphasizes steady, actionable steps. She supports clients as they try new behaviors and notice the results. The work is presented as an ongoing process with clear landmarks, rather than quick fixes.

How sessions work

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and choosing actions that reflect personal values. It can help when anger or frustration interferes with what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with new behaviors. CBT is useful for addressing workplace stress, impulsive reactions, and persistent worry. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can be useful when anger links to abandonment, control, or relationship wounds.

Picking the right approach is part of the work. Peggy will collaborate with each client to decide which methods to use based on goals and daily life demands. That means trying techniques, reviewing how they felt, and adjusting plans together rather than committing to a single method upfront.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm the session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins during a workday break, or reduce travel time. Some approaches lend themselves to practical homework and in-the-moment experiments that transfer well to remote sessions. Licensed professionals adapt tools and pacing so therapy connects with ordinary routines and responsibilities.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFatherhood issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDParanoiaPersonality disordersPrejudice and discriminationSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

20+ years

Listed in

Texas

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

Peggy works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and related issues like self-esteem, grief, and relationship problems.

What is her therapeutic style?

She uses a practical, awareness-based approach drawing on cognitive behavioral methods, emotionally-focused techniques, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 20 years of experience combining mental health practice with a background in workplace leadership.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas.

Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.

Which session formats are offered?

Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific session formats.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What do I do to begin?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

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