About Bruce
Dr. Bruce Pedigo is a licensed clinician working in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and parenting concerns, and ADHD. He brings 40 years of clinical experience and combines practical skills with a calm, direct approach.
He listens first and asks about each person's story. He aims to understand how individual struggles connect with relationship patterns. Sessions focus on concrete changes people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
His work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, and mindfulness practices. That mix is used to improve emotional regulation, communication, and day-to-day coping. Sessions can include skill practice, gentle challenge, and planning for real-life situations.
Bruce holds a Doctorate and is credentialed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Florida. He has long experience with child, adolescent, couples, and family issues and with related concerns such as autism spectrum differences and developmental challenges.
He approaches care from a compassionate perspective informed by his Christian worldview, while keeping the focus on each person's goals. People who prefer an honest, steady clinician will find a straightforward and relational style. Practical matters like session format and scheduling are handled through an online subscription model.
The therapist follows a collaborative process to match methods to what each person needs and wants to accomplish.
Approaches that can be used in online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand patterns that show up in partnerships and parent-child dynamics, and it can guide efforts to build more stable connections and clearer communication.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance. The therapist offers a nonjudgmental space where people can tell their story, clarify goals, and decide what changes matter most to them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It teaches practical skills to reframe unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going, and it often includes short exercises to practice between sessions.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those aims. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust direction if something isn’t working.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it simpler to schedule therapy around school, work, or other obligations and to use different formats for different types of sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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