About Penny
Penny Howland is a licensed clinical social worker with forty years of experience. She combines talk therapy with practical tools to help people cope with loss, stress, addiction, and mood struggles. Penny aims to make sessions clear and focused so families and individuals can take small steps forward.
Penny often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring relationship themes and emotional history.
Background and approach
Her work values the connection between physical health and emotional life, so she pays attention to how illness, caregiving, and aging affect mood and daily routines. Her background includes long experience in medical and mental health settings. That has included work with people on dialysis, those facing terminal illness, grief support, and substance use concerns.
This gives her practical familiarity with end-of-life issues, hospice concerns, and caregiver stress. Penny trained at Wayne State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Social Work. She lists a Florida LCSW license, FL LCSW SW1238, and participates in professional social work organizations.
Her approach is steady and experienced, aimed at helping people regain balance. Sessions focus on clear goals, coping strategies, and communication skills. She helps people work through relationship struggles, trauma, depression, anxiety, and problems with sleep and self-esteem.
Penny also offers support around career strain, midlife shifts, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, compulsive behaviors, and stress-related issues. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at emotions and past patterns that show up in current relationships. It helps when recurring relationship problems, abandonment patterns, or deep feelings keep getting in the way of daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that suit their goals, needs, and pace. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when travel is hard. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter reflections, daily coaching, or continuing progress between full sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and medical appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English