About Pennie
Pennie Sheppard is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or life changes. She uses straightforward conversation to help clients make sense of difficult feelings. Many come for help with addiction, low self-esteem, anger, or after trauma and abuse.
Pennie works online and welcomes people from the United Kingdom and beyond who want practical support. Pennie has 15 years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
She adapts sessions to each person, pacing work so it feels manageable. That may mean talking through past experiences, learning breathing and relaxation techniques, or practising new ways of handling difficult moments. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values.
She also uses client-centred principles to keep the conversation respectful and focused on what matters to the individual. For emotional regulation and crisis-tolerance she may include ideas from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Pennie offers a gentle, body-aware angle too, using breathing, mindfulness and elements of therapeutic body psychotherapy where helpful.
This can be useful for people living with long-term illness, chronic pain, dissociation or forms of autism who want ways to reconnect with their experience. Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals. Pennie works to build practical tools alongside emotional processing so clients can cope better day to day.
She encourages small steps and clear plans that fit into busy lives.
How Pennie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Pennie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and choose actions that matter to them. ACT focuses on values and small experiments to build a more meaningful life despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is another core approach she uses to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical changes that reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Pennie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then shape the sessions together. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adapting the plan as needed so it fits the client’s life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people talk face to face and practise skills together. Phone sessions work well for those who need lower bandwidth or prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support or when someone wants to write rather than speak. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, caring duties or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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