About Pennie
Pennie Brooks is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with more than four decades of experience. She greets people with calm, practical guidance and focuses on helping them cope with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship strain, and anger. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making therapy usable in day-to-day life.
Brooks uses short-term skills and longer-term strategies to help people manage symptoms and move toward their goals.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps. Her work also includes client-centered listening and hypnotherapy when appropriate. Her background spans hospitals, rehabilitation centers, hospice care, government-funded youth programs, group practices, and independent practice.
That range informs a flexible approach to challenges like chronic pain, illness, disability, brain or spinal cord injury, and recovery after abuse. She has substantial experience supporting people through major life transitions and identity concerns. Pennie values collaboration and practical tools.
Sessions tend to mix problem-solving, skills practice, and emotional processing so progress feels concrete. She aims to help people build resilience, strengthen relationships, and find clearer direction. People who prefer a steady, experienced guide will find a direct but empathetic therapist in Pennie.
Her long career and varied settings mean she can adapt methods to what each person needs and prefers.
Therapeutic Approaches You Can Use Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, grief, and life transitions by focusing on meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and anger management. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's experience and emphasizes listening, empathy, and support to help people explore concerns at their own pace.Pennie treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and past experiences, and together they will try methods that fit. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and needs. Video is useful for deeper work and face-to-face connection. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or have shorter, focused conversations. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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