About Penni
Penni Mitchell greets people with a calm, down-to-earth presence. She is a Florida licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with three decades of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and related life changes.
Penni keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals. Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental, which many find helpful when talking about painful or difficult topics.
Background and approach
Her approach draws from several methods so treatment fits the person in front of her. She uses client-centered work to build trust, cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, and dialectical skills to manage intense emotions. She also uses emotionally focused methods and hypnotherapy when these suit a person’s needs.
Penni’s background includes a Master of Social Work and a long history of supporting people through loss, addiction, mood concerns, trauma, and major life shifts. That experience guides how she plans sessions and sets short-term goals. Sessions are offered in English and Penni sees people in Florida as well as international clients.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match needs to timing and format.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust. It puts the person’s experience at the center and helps clarify goals and values, useful for depression, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thinking and habits, which can help with anxiety, stress, sleep, and mood problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for handling intense emotions and improving coping. It is practical for people who struggle with strong reactions, self-soothing, or relationship stress.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review what matters most to the person and suggest strategies to try. Together they track progress and adjust methods based on goals and what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and texting let people share thoughts between meetings and fit therapy into busy days. These options add flexibility so therapy can work around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English