About Penni
Penni Mitchell is a Florida-licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical help for everyday problems. She draws on three decades of experience to guide people through anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship and parenting struggles. Penni aims to make first steps feel manageable and clear for someone searching for support.
She uses a mix of approaches chosen to fit each person rather than one fixed method. Sessions often involve talking through current challenges, learning new coping skills, and practicing small behavior changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Penni blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. Her background includes a Master of Social Work and prior study in education, and she holds the LCSW credential in Florida. That training informs how she organizes treatment plans and sets reasonable goals that match real-life demands.
Expect straightforward explanations and a focus on steps you can try between sessions. Penni also draws on emotionally focused techniques to help people address intimacy and attachment concerns. She uses mindfulness and, where appropriate, hypnotherapy-style tools to support relaxation, sleep, and habit change.
The work is collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort. Sessions may include coaching-style conversations for career or life transitions alongside therapy for mental health concerns. Penni offers video, phone, chat, or text-based options to fit different schedules and preferences.
International clients may be supported in English.
How Penni’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and perspective, using active listening and empathy to help people find their own solutions to problems like relationship strain or low self-esteem. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches clear techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping with life changes. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and practical coping skills for strong emotions, impulsive behavior, and relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client’s needs, and adjust the plan as progress is reviewed. This collaborative process helps match techniques to what feels most useful for the person seeking help.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and do longer therapeutic work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support short updates, check-ins between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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