About Pennie
Pennie Brooks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with a long career helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and listens closely to find what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical steps a client can use between meetings.
Over 42 years, she has worked in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, hospice care, government programs for at-risk youth, group practices, and independent practice in Florida.
Background and approach
That variety shapes a flexible approach that fits many life situations. She draws on experience with chronic illness, pain, brain and spinal cord injury, and recovery from abuse. Therapy blends short-term skills with longer-term growth.
Techniques come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods, and she also uses hypnotherapy when appropriate. The goal is to help people build resilience and handle everyday challenges in clearer ways. Brooks often helps people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, communication problems, and codependency.
She also supports those facing caregiving stress, cancer, aging concerns, and dissociation. Work in the room is collaborative and grounded in what the client wants to change. Her style is compassionate and practical.
She aims to leave people with tools they can use right away and with a plan for next steps. Sessions are offered in English and provided through multiple online formats to fit different needs.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. It often helps with anxiety, mood, and problem solving. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and supports personal insight and growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. This collaborative process helps people feel involved in deciding which tools to use and when to change course.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and to fit different preferences. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be convenient for brief updates, quick coping tools, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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