About Penelope
Penelope "Penny" McBride is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York. She brings 26 years of experience and a client-centered way of working. Penny focuses on practical help for stressful life moments and emotional struggles.
She uses an approach that emphasizes relationships and how early bonds shape current patterns. That helps when people wrestle with attachment, codependency, or commitment worries. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
How Penelope works
Penny offers support for anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and trauma and abuse. She also helps people facing addiction, grief, and major life transitions. Parenting stress, caregiver strain, and family of origin problems are among her common concerns.
In sessions she aims to make things clear and doable. She listens for patterns in relationships and behavior, then suggests steps to try between sessions. Skills might include communication tools, emotion regulation, and problem-solving specific day-to-day challenges.
Penny combines practical strategies with a warm, nonjudgmental style. She works collaboratively with each person to set goals and track progress. The focus is on building steady coping skills and improving how people relate to themselves and others.
Penelope lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Penelope works with
The areas below are the ones Penelope selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How attachment and skills-based therapy work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can explore those patterns and how they affect close relationships and trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and changing daily habits that get in the way of functioning. The Gottman Method concentrates on communication and managing conflict in relationships through clear, research-informed exercises and conversations.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to goals, try a few methods, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Clients and the therapist collaborate to pick techniques that match the person's needs and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for longer conversations and exercises that use facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people share short updates, do quick coaching, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent work while juggling family, work, and travel.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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