About Penny
Penny Britton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and those struggling with addictions or the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her work also covers anger management and related concerns such as attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and control struggles.
She supports people dealing with divorce and separation, domestic violence, and process addictions like gambling or compulsive sexual behavior.
Background and approach
Penny uses straightforward talk and practical tools during sessions. She pays attention to how thoughts and behaviors affect day-to-day life and helps people try new ways of coping. She blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to match what each person needs.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She encourages open conversations about feelings, past hurts, and patterns that keep people stuck. The focus is on small, workable steps that fit into busy lives.
Penny also draws on motivational interviewing and narrative therapy to help people clarify values and rewrite the stories that hold them back. She can work with concerns like obsessions, compulsions, guilt, shame, and personality-related difficulties. Her aim is to help people build self-compassion and more effective coping over time.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting pulled into them and clarifies what matters most so actions line up with values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and patterns that keep people stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, obsessive thoughts, and mood problems. The Gottman Method focuses on relationship patterns and communication skills and can support people working on connection and conflict in partnerships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those needs. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video helps when visual cues matter, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be simpler to schedule, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and texting lets people send brief updates or work through things between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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