About Pennie
Pennie Brooks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with a long career in clinical care. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and anger. Pennie aims to make therapy practical and approachable for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
Over four decades she has worked in hospitals, rehabilitation settings, hospice care, group practices, and independent practice in Florida. Her background includes work with at-risk programs and long-term care environments.
Background and approach
She brings experience with chronic illness, brain and spinal cord injury, and recovery from abuse. Pennie uses a mix of body-oriented and talk-based methods to help people feel more grounded. Sessions often include breathing, body awareness, and skills to reduce reactivity.
She also uses evidence-based strategies to change patterns of thinking and behaviour. The focus in sessions is collaborative. Pennie helps people set goals, practice new skills, and apply them between meetings.
She aims to build resilience and clearer decision making rather than offering quick fixes. Her work is informed by lived experience with trauma, disability, chronic pain, and loss. That perspective guides how she listens and plans treatment.
People who want steady, experienced support for difficult transitions often find her style steady and practical.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to the body and to sensations that show up with stress and trauma. Online sessions can include guided breathing, movement awareness, and exercises that help reduce tension. These techniques often help when physical symptoms accompany worry or grief.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and flexible action. It helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to steps that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical tools to shift those patterns for clearer coping.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Pennie will discuss options with each person and tailor methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level. She aims to combine somatic practice with ACT or CBT when that fits, and to adjust plans as people make progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That range makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to continue work between appointments. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, monitor practice, and support people through transitions.
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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