Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
How Pennie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 42
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Pennie
Pennie Brooks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with a long career helping people manage strong emotions and life changes. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, relationship difficulties, trauma and anger. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel safer and more in control day to day.
Pennie draws on many years of clinical work in hospitals, rehab centers, hospice care, and long-term independent practice.
Background and approach
That background gives her experience with chronic illness, chronic pain, and recovery after injury. She also has experience supporting people facing identity questions, caregiving strain, and major life transitions. In sessions she uses clear, skills-based methods to build coping tools and resilience.
Conversations include identifying thoughts and patterns, trying new ways of responding, and practicing small behavior changes that add up over time. Clients work toward goals at a pace that fits their needs. Pennie values collaboration and respects each person’s story.
She brings empathy informed by lived experience with trauma and chronic health challenges. The result is a practical focus on what helps now and what supports longer-term recovery. She practices in Florida and offers work suited to common concerns like communication problems, control issues, codependency, and attachment difficulties.
Pennie adapts techniques to each person while keeping sessions straightforward and goal focused.
What Pennie works with
Everything Pennie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Pennie's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Pennie lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, grief, and anger by shifting focus from fighting feelings to living in line with what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause suffering. CBT is often used for stress, anxiety, and coping with chronic illness.Choosing the best approach is a shared process. Pennie works with each person to identify goals, try approaches, and adjust what isn’t working. That collaborative exploration helps match techniques to real-life needs and preferences rather than starting with a fixed plan.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can be helpful when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick problem solving, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, medical appointments, or mobility limits while keeping focus on building skills and progress.
Questions people ask about Pennie
What kinds of concerns does Pennie address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, and anger, plus related areas like codependency and chronic pain.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is collaborative and skills-based, with straightforward conversations that focus on practical tools and step-by-step changes.
How much experience does she have?
Pennie brings 42 years of work in mental health, including roles in hospitals, rehabilitation, hospice, and long-term independent practice.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LMHC credential and practices in Florida as a licensed mental health counselor.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients connect with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
What formats are available for appointments?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules.
How does payment and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; you start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.