Dr. Peggy DeLong
Dr. Peggy DeLong, known as The Gratitude Psychologist, is an industry leading expert on gratitude, positive psychology, mental health, and personal development. She has worked with dozens of organizations, such as Penn State University, Rutgers University, Paul Newman Foundation, Franklin & Marshall College, and RubinBrown, to achieve more peace, happiness, and joy.
With a Doctorate in Psychology, and 30 years of experience providing mental health and personal development services to individuals and groups, she is highly respected by university and corporate leaders and their members. As a former forensic psychologist who conducted over 4,000 evaluations and provided expert witness testimony, she’s highly skilled in mining for information, problem solving, and persuasively speaking about grief and emotional pain to help people engage in life changing decisions and behaviors for healing and a happier life.
She’s an international speaker whose insights on gratitude and happiness have been featured in numerous podcasts, magazines, and other media outlets, including Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod, The Wall Street Journal, World Gratitude Summit with Jack Canfield, Happy Minds Summit, Wake Up with Marci, NJ Higher Education Mental Health Summit, Gratitudeology with Jamie Hess, BBC Radio, Stress and Burnout Summit, and Authority Magazine.
Dr. Peggy is skilled and passionate about bringing people together. She’s founded the Women’s Weekly Wellness Walks where women have walked together for 10 years on over 400 weekly walks, The MotherDaughter Connection to strengthen communication and relationships between mothers and daughters, The Feeling Good Movement to help people implement simple activities for improved mental health, and most recently, Peaceful Present, Future Flourish, to support people with mental health and personal development through a variety of powerful in person and online programs.
As a psychologist, professional speaker, author, therapist, and mentor, she helps others with overwhelm to experience peace and joy in their lives through utilizing her framework of The 4 Ps for Mental Health (Prioritize, Plan, Practice, Prosper) and her research-backed, brain-based methodologies, The Grateful Day and The Prioritize P.E.A.C.E. Method.