About Penny
Penny Clodfelter is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety and related struggles. She invites clients to talk about what feels overwhelming and works with them to find practical steps forward. Her warm, down-to-earth approach aims to make first sessions feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
With 35 years of experience, Penny draws on straightforward tools to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. She uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and try new responses.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work help clients set realistic goals and follow through on changes they choose. Penny emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where feelings and stories can be named. Sessions focus on what matters most to each person, whether that is managing anxiety, grief, or relationship stress.
She helps clients break big problems into small, doable steps so progress is visible. Her background includes practice in Missouri and Kansas and long experience with addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, parenting stress, and intimacy concerns. She also supports people dealing with attachment issues, caregiving stress, codependency, and other life transitions.
Penny adapts strategies to each person's situation rather than offering a one-size-fits-all plan. People who choose her often want practical tools and clear next steps. Conversations tend to be focused and collaborative, with attention to immediate coping strategies and longer-term patterns.
Penny encourages steady progress and checks in on what is working each week.
How her approaches work online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying thought patterns that increase anxiety and trying practical changes in thinking and behavior to reduce distress. It is useful for worries, panic, low mood, and unhelpful habits.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help people notice feelings without getting swept away by them. These techniques often help with stress, rumination, and reactive behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Penny will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and pace, and she adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and work in longer sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support short check-ins, homework, and ongoing encouragement between longer appointments. These options make scheduling more flexible for busy families and people with tight routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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