Peggy Harless , LMFT

Peggy Harless is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports clients facing trauma, intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, and issues related to family life and LGBT identity. Peggy has five years of clinical experience and brings a straightforward, down-to-earth style to sessions.

She draws on practical tools that people can use between appointments. That includes strategies from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help with unhelpful thought patterns and intense emotions. She also uses motivational interviewing to support change and acceptance and commitment ideas to help clarify values and take small steps toward them.

Sessions tend to be direct and conversational. Peggy aims to create a space where someone can say what’s going on, get honest feedback, and practice new ways of responding. She is comfortable addressing tough topics like substance use, domestic violence, fertility stress, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and first responder issues.

Her background includes outpatient clinic experience and work in inpatient psychiatric settings. Those roles exposed her to many different challenges and helped shape a practical approach to therapy. She balances professional experience with an approachable manner and everyday language.

Peggy works with adults in Georgia and provides services in English. People can expect a therapist who listens, offers clear tools, and partners with them to handle life changes and complicated emotions.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small consistent steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing practical behavior changes; it often helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and some addiction-related patterns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try techniques from these approaches, and adjust based on what helps. That shared process guides which methods are used and how sessions are structured.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone calls are easy when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and text or chat can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity when schedules change or travel comes up.