Peggy Lingard, LCSW

Peggy Lingard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of experience helping people navigate anxiety, grief, relationship struggles and major life changes. When she relocated to California for a career opportunity, she encountered a profound upheaval that reshaped her support systems and sense of self. Guided by her own therapist to invest in meaningful relationships and activities, she reconnected with nature and painting - practices she continues to value nearly two decades later, and that inform her belief in active, strengths-based recovery.

Professionally she trained with leaders in the field and has developed expertise in Family Systems Theory, problem-solving approaches, divorce mediation, solution-focused and narrative therapies, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, resilience work and mindfulness. Peggy integrates evidence-based tools with practical skills - for example using mindfulness and distress-tolerance techniques from DBT - while emphasizing the therapeutic alliance as the foundation for change. She frames therapy as a collaborative process in which the therapist and client direct work together and borrow strategies that fit each person’s life.

As a lesbian with a multiracial family and three grown children, she brings lived experience to multicultural and LGBT-affirming care without assuming mastery of another’s story. Peggy approaches each person with openness, curiosity and respect, inviting clients who are ready to increase transparency and release what no longer serves them to engage in intentional growth and healing.