Peggy L. Ferguson, Ph.D.

Licensed Marriage/Family Therapist
Licensed Alcohol/Drug Counselor

Dr. Ferguson provides individual, couples, and family counseling for a variety of emotional and mental health issues, while specializing couples counseling and addiction recovery.  Dr. Ferguson takes an integrative approach in therapy, utilizing theoretically informed methods and techniques most appropriate to resolve the problem or concern.

My approaches to mental health, marriage/family, and substance abuse counseling are practical, interactive, and solution-focused.  I provide support, practical feedback and guidance to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns.

In our initial session, you and I together, identify the problems, issues, or symptoms that may be troubling you.  We will also identify your strengths and skills, then develop a formal plan of action to tackle those problems.  Our plan of action serves as a blueprint to accomplish your goals.

With over thirty (30) years experience as a clinician, (most of it specializing in chemical dependency and family counseling), I currently provide professional counseling services in a private practice.  I work with a broad spectrum of clients. Having been engaged in the counseling field since the l980s as a guidance counselor working in inpatient treatment facilities for adolescents and later, chemically dependent adults, I launched a private practice in l990 in Stillwater when I started back to college to acquire my Ph.D. in Human Environmental Science with a specialty in Family Relations and Child Development. Today, I continue to provide counseling services to people with issues as varied as adjustment problems in college, marital problems, substance abuse issues, grief, aging issues, family business issues, and personal growth and development.