Pennie Brooks , LMHC

Pennie Brooks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with decades of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and anger. She presents a calm, straightforward style and aims to make therapy useful from the first session.

Pennie works in plain language and focuses on practical tools clients can use between sessions. She tailors each plan to the person's needs, mixing short-term coping skills with longer-term work on meaning and resilience. Her background includes work in hospitals, rehabilitation settings, hospice care, youth programs, group practices, and long-term private work in Florida.

Over a 42-year career she has supported people dealing with chronic illness and pain, brain and spinal cord injury, caregiver stress, and cancer-related concerns. She also helps with attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and commitment challenges, body image, and dissociation. Her experience covers a wide range of life changes and losses.

Pennie draws on several approaches to fit what each person needs rather than using a single method for everyone. She combines acceptance-based work, cognitive tools, relationship-focused strategies, and hypnotherapy where appropriate. The result is collaborative care that emphasizes practical change and emotional understanding.

People meet her to learn skills, make sense of painful experiences, and find clearer direction after major transitions. Sessions aim to build resilience, reduce distress, and help clients move forward with more confidence and purpose.

How Pennie uses therapy approaches online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then act in ways that align with their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, grief, chronic illness, and persistent stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and anger. CBT is practical and skill-based, which many people find helpful for short-term relief and longer-term change. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening-based stance where the therapist follows the person's pace and priorities to build insight and self-direction.

Pennie treats finding the right approach as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan when needed. That teamwork helps match techniques to what actually helps the individual in day-to-day life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while using the approaches described above.