About Pennie
Pennie Sheppard is a counsellor with 15 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing depression, grief, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, and difficulties with self-esteem. Pennie communicates in clear, everyday language so people can understand the steps ahead.
She uses an integrative approach and adapts sessions to each person's needs. That can mean talking through thoughts and behaviours with cognitive behavioural techniques.
Background and approach
It can also mean using acceptance and commitment ideas to focus on values and small changes in daily life. Mindfulness, breathing and relaxation practices are offered alongside emotionally focused work. These tools aim to help people manage intense feelings and improve how they relate to others.
Sessions may also include attention to bodily experience as part of therapeutic work. Pennie has a BACP registration, which appears on her professional profile. Her practice covers a broad range of concerns such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, attachment issues, and dissociation among other difficulties.
She adapts the pace and focus to the person in front of her. People can expect practical suggestions and skills to try between sessions. Pennie describes the work as respectful and compassionate, and she builds a plan around each person's circumstances and goals.
How Pennie brings therapy online with practical approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on what matters to the person and small, values-led steps that can improve daily life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviours and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful cycles and reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Pennie will listen to your situation, discuss goals and try methods that suit your needs and preferences. She adapts the pace and mixes techniques so the plan fits you rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to make sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls are useful for a full face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help people access therapy from different locations and at times that match their routine.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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