Peggy Cahue-Kuipers, LPC

Peggy Cahue-Kuipers is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She draws on cognitive behavioral approaches alongside person-centered ideas to help clients find steps that feel doable. Peggy speaks plainly and focuses on small changes that add up over time.

Peggy has 16 years of experience working with clients facing addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related struggles. She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating concerns, anger, career shifts, and major life changes. Her work includes helping people untangle family of origin issues and blended family challenges without using technical jargon.

In sessions she mixes problem-solving with emotion-focused work. That can mean identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new behavior, and talking through painful memories. She emphasizes dignity and respect while helping people notice patterns that hold them back.

Peggy also brings tools from acceptance-based and dialectical approaches when clients need skills for distress tolerance or emotion regulation. Those tools are used alongside client-centered listening to match what each person needs. The overall aim is practical progress rather than quick fixes.

Peggy practices in Michigan and offers counseling for aging and geriatric issues, codependency, commitment concerns, and control issues among other focus areas. She works with people who are ready to commit to the work and are willing to try new ways of coping and relating.

Using CBT and Acceptance-Based Work Online

CBT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Online sessions can include thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework to practice between meetings.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches people how to accept difficult feelings while committing to values-based actions. It can be useful for stress, grief, and long-term struggles where avoidance has become a problem.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first based on goals and preferences. That may mean combining CBT skill practice with acceptance strategies or using person-centered listening to guide the pace.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video is good for hands-on skill work and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a check-in without video. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when writing helps process emotions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical steps and progress.