Welcome to my site. I’m glad you’re here.
I enjoy offering kind, insightful, interactive counseling and psychotherapy to people who are experiencing depression or anxiety and to people who are facing loss or chronic illness or who are coming to terms with their sexuality, identity or self-definition.
My aim is to partner with you in affirming your strengths and wisdom while working with you to outgrow patterns of self-defeat, negative thinking and unkindness toward yourself. With gentle challenging, warmth and often humor I will work with you toward your goals within the framework of Humanistic Psychology using cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, goal setting and other techniques, sometimes including journaling or art therapy.
My Practice Offers
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In-Person Sessions
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Online Sessions
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Meet Peggy
I have a Master’s degree in Psychology/Counseling from Antioch University. My degree program had emphases in multicultural counseling and feminist psychotherapy for individual women, men and couples. I opened my practice in 1983 and have deep, broad experience partnering with people facing anxiety and depression; loss, chronic illness, relationship and work challenges and sexual identity.
My post-graduate training includes seminars and classes on a variety of topics and modalities.
Before I became a psychotherapist/Counselor I had an appointment of several years duration from the Washington State Arts Commission to teach poetry and other creative writing to students from second through twelfth grade and to provide training for teachers on creative thinking. My collection of Poetry, published by New Rivers Press under the name Margaret Shafer, is long out of print but I still enjoy writing poetry and fiction and at times see my work in publications.
“Working with Peggy is both grounding and refreshing. She offers a warm perspective, guidance, and plenty of space to work on whatever I'm trying to move through in the moment.”
Contact
Email peggyshafer@gmail.com
Text at 206-730-8621
Office Address:
Lake City Professional Center
2611 NE 125th St
Suite 100B
Seattle, WA 98125