Peggy Fair, LCSW

Peggy Fair is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 40 years in mental health practice. She spent the early part of her career as an emergency mental health therapist in Virginia. Since moving to North Carolina 30 years ago she has worked in inpatient psychiatry and later as a mental health therapist for Marines and Navy servicemembers for 14 years.

She maintained a part-time private practice for 23 years focused mainly on couples and relationship work. That evening work gave her regular opportunities to help couples resolve conflict and build better coping skills together. She describes herself as an integrative therapist who draws from many approaches to support goals set in session.

Her clinical interests include stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career matters, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes. She also lists additional focuses such as blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and family of origin difficulties.

Peggy uses a range of methods including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and solution-focused work. She says she helps people set clear goals and uses practical tools to work toward those goals.

She is semi-retired and living in Florida while licensed in North Carolina as an LCSW. Sessions and messages are managed with timely responses; she checks messages multiple times daily and aims to reply within 24 hours or less.

How her approaches translate to online sessions