Pennie Brooks, LMHC

Pennie Brooks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with over four decades in the mental health field. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, anger, and relationship concerns. Her manner is steady and practical, aimed at helping clients manage urgent problems and daily pressures.

She frames therapy as a collaborative process. Sessions focus on building coping skills, increasing resilience, and finding meaning after loss or change. Pennie draws on a range of approaches to match each person’s needs rather than using a single method for everyone.

Pennie’s background includes work in acute care hospitals, rehabilitation centers, hospice, government programs for at-risk youth, and long-term independent practice. That range gives her experience with medical, end-of-life, and crisis-related concerns alongside emotional and relational struggles.

Her practice addresses chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, brain and spinal cord injury, and recovery from abuse. She also supports people dealing with identity questions, body image, abandonment, attachment issues, and blended family challenges. Sessions are adapted for adolescents, adults, and older adults as appropriate.

Pennie describes her style as compassionate, collaborative, and skills-based. She emphasizes practical tools clients can use between sessions. Her goal is to help people feel seen and to move forward with clearer goals and more confidence.

How her methods translate to online work

Pennie uses Imago Relationship Therapy to help people understand patterns in close relationships and improve communication through guided exercises. Imago work focuses on connection and practiced dialogue to reduce reactivity and increase understanding.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, which helps people notice painful thoughts without letting them drive behavior. ACT emphasizes values-driven action and simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful steps forward.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and the issues at hand to decide whether Imago, ACT, CBT, or another method fits best. That choice can change as needs evolve and progress is made.

Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, such as scheduling shorter check-ins during a work break or avoiding travel time. Because session formats were not specified in the biography, confirm current online options before booking. A brief conversation during scheduling will clarify whether the format offered meets your technical and scheduling needs.