About Pennie
Pennie Sheppard offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or life changes. She talks plainly and listens closely so clients can start to feel steadier. Pennie aims to help people notice what matters to them and find manageable steps forward.
She has 15 years of counselling experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Over that time she has worked with a wide range of concerns including addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and compassion fatigue.
How Pennie works
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, long-term conditions and neurodiverse needs such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Pennie uses a mix of approaches to suit the person in front of her. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and act on them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking and build useful habits. Emotionally-Focused and client-centred ways of working bring warmth and attention to feelings. Sessions include practical tools such as breathing and relaxation exercises alongside reflective conversation.
Pennie adapts pace and techniques to each person so therapy feels manageable rather than overwhelming. The goal is steady progress, not perfection. Her online practice makes it possible to have therapy by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Pennie will work with international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions according to her schedule.
Pennie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Pennie works with
The areas below are the ones Pennie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Pennie's approaches fit with online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values. Online sessions can focus on simple, practical exercises from ACT such as noticing thoughts and committing to actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thought patterns and behaviours and offers straightforward techniques to change them, like experimenting with new habits and testing unhelpful beliefs in day-to-day life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centres on understanding and naming feelings to help people feel more connected to their emotions and respond differently to them.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Pennie will discuss different options and adapt her methods to the client's goals and preferences. That means the plan may emphasise thinking tools, values-based exercises or emotion-focused conversation depending on what fits best. The decision is made together and can change as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can suit busy or geographically distant people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or screen time is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, care commitments or varying energy levels while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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