Peggy Cahue-Kuipers, LPC

Peggy Cahue-Kuipers is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who draws on 16 years of clinical work. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addictions, and life transitions. Peggy aims to help people find workable solutions and move toward their goals with steadiness and respect.

She uses approaches that center the person in the room and emphasize everyday skills. Sessions often include techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. These tools are mixed to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single plan.

Peggy has sustained experience helping with grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, and anger. She also focuses on aging and geriatric issues and related family dynamics. Her background includes work with substance use and codependency, and she addresses emotional patterns like avoidance, dissociation, guilt, and shame.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She encourages people to be active in setting goals and trying practical steps between sessions. Therapy is presented as a time-dependent process that asks for commitment and willingness to try new ways of coping.

Peggy communicates in English and works within Michigan. She welcomes questions about her practice and the next steps for beginning therapy.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Many of Peggy's methods translate well to remote conversations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps; it helps people who feel stuck by connecting actions to what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotional responses in relationships and improving how people express needs and connect with others.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Peggy will work with each person to identify which methods feel most useful. That decision is collaborative and may change as goals evolve over time.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to keep regular work on goals between in-person appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and EFT exercises to work in a virtual setting so people can practice skills in real life and bring examples back to sessions.