About Penni
Penni Mitchell is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing life changes, mood struggles, substance concerns, grief, and relationship or intimacy questions. Her manner is warm and accepting, and she aims to create space where people can speak honestly and feel heard.
Penni uses a mix of practical methods tailored to each person. She draws on client-centered approaches that follow the person's lead and cognitive behavioral tools that help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses emotion-focused techniques to look at how feelings affect relationships, and dialectical behavior therapy skills for managing intense emotions. Clients can expect straightforward sessions focused on real-life skills. Penni may introduce breathing and grounding, step-by-step behavior changes, and short exercises to try between meetings.
She explains concepts plainly and helps people turn insights into daily routines that reduce stress and improve sleep and coping. Her background includes a Master of Social Work and prior training in education and life coaching, and she is licensed in Florida as an LCSW. That experience informs a practical, flexible approach that adapts as needs shift.
Penni offers multiple ways to meet so sessions can fit busy lives. She supports people who prefer video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging and will work with each person to decide what format helps them engage most effectively.
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's priorities, helping them feel understood and guiding the process at their pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to reduce anxiety and change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions, improving tolerance for distress, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan together so the work matches what the person needs and prefers. That flexibility matters when tackling anxiety, stress, or relationship concerns.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, while phone calls require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, grounding exercises, or when someone prefers writing between sessions. These options make it easier to build consistent habits and practice skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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