About Pennie
Pennie Brooks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents and individuals can use right away. Her style aims to make conversations feel calm and doable when life feels overwhelming.
Brooks draws on many approaches to shape each session to a person’s needs. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients notice thoughts without being controlled by them.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral tools are used to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-centered principles keep sessions grounded in the person's own goals and values. Her background includes work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, hospice, government programs, group practices, and long-term independent practice.
That range has exposed her to chronic illness, brain and spinal cord injury, and end-of-life care, which informs how she supports people facing medical or caregiving strain. Pennie also has experience with relationship concerns, communication and commitment issues, and blended family stress.
She helps people cope with abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, and anger in ways that focus on skills and clear steps forward. Over 42 years in the field have shaped a collaborative approach. She aims to help clients build resilience and practical coping strategies.
Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on realistic ways to get there.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Pennie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. In online sessions this often means short exercises and homework that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and testing new behaviors; it works well over video or messaging because worksheets and behavior plans can be reviewed together and updated between meetings. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and validation, giving people space to set the pace and priorities of their work during any session format.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps find the blend of techniques that fits each person's situation and preferences.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging - make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video lets the therapist and client use visual cues and screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option when movement or driving makes video difficult. Live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing accountability between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain alongside work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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