About Penny
Penny Nevins is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people heal from trauma, rebuild self-esteem, and manage strong emotions like anger. Her manner is warm and straightforward, aimed at easing the stress of big life changes.
Penny uses practical, person-focused methods to help clients name problems and try manageable steps forward. Sessions often look like talking through recent events, practicing new ways to respond, and building coping tools that fit daily life.
How Penny works
She tailors the pace to each person so progress feels real and doable. Her background includes long-term work with survivors of abuse and people affected by domestic violence. She also supports people facing chronic pain, illness, or caregiving stress.
Communication issues, family of origin patterns, and difficulties tied to fertility or separation are other areas she addresses. Penny draws on approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to guide sessions. These approaches help clients understand thinking patterns, process painful memories, and set concrete goals.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques are used when people want focused steps to move forward. People meet Penny in video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging sessions. She helps people figure out what to try next, whether that means learning skills for everyday stress or working through deeper trauma.
The goal is steady progress toward clearer thinking and greater emotional balance.
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What Penny works with
The areas below are the ones Penny selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following a person's lead. It helps people feel heard, name what matters most, and decide their next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anger, low self-esteem, and day-to-day coping. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process painful memories and reduce their hold on current life, using gradual, carefully paced work suited to trauma recovery.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. This is collaborative - treatments are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or hands-free conversation, live chat for brief focused check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, keep momentum between meetings, and choose the format that best suits the task at hand.
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