Peggy Fair, LCSW

Peggy Fair is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 40 years of experience in mental health practice. She has worked in emergency mental health settings, inpatient psychiatric care, and with military service members, and she has run a part-time private practice focused on relationship work. She currently lives in Florida and maintains ties to North Carolina where much of her clinical work took place.

Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, and parenting stress. She also helps with anger, self-esteem, career shifts, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes. Peggy lists additional focus areas such as blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, family of origin problems, fatherhood issues, first responder concerns, forgiveness, guilt and shame, infidelity, and midlife crisis.

Peggy’s approach is integrative. She uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy tools. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are part of the mix when they fit a goal. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented; she helps people set clear objectives and learn the tools to reach them.

Her long career includes emergency clinic work in Virginia, sixteen years in inpatient psychiatric care, and fourteen years providing mental health services to Marines and Navy service members. Alongside that, she ran an evening private practice for 23 years focused on couples resolving conflict and building coping skills.

She describes herself as reachable and responsive, checking messages several times daily and replying within 24 hours or less. Prospective clients who want to start are asked to use the online matching and scheduling flow to set up an initial session.

How her approaches translate to online sessions