Penny Nevins, LMHC

Penny Nevins is a licensed mental health counselor with 23 years of experience in Florida. She uses clear, practical approaches to help people handle painful memories, strong emotions, and major life changes. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping people make measurable changes in day-to-day life.

She focuses on trauma and abuse, self-esteem, anger, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Penny also addresses related concerns like abandonment, family of origin issues, communication problems, and the stress caregivers face. She works with people dealing with chronic illness, divorce, fertility struggles, and feelings of guilt or shame.

Her work combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered conversation and solution-focused strategies. Sessions involve identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavioral changes, and tracking what helps over time. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding reasons to change and keeping momentum.

Penny aims to create a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through painful experiences and practice new coping skills. She emphasizes short, practical steps that can reduce distress between sessions. Many clients appreciate the mix of emotional support and hands-on strategies.

She offers sessions in English and provides therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Penny practices in Florida as an LMHC and brings long-term experience to complex emotional and practical problems.

CBT and Trauma-Informed Care Delivered Online

CBT focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. In practice this means identifying patterns of thinking that cause pain and trying small, concrete experiments to shift those patterns. This approach helps with anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, and managing strong emotional reactions.

Trauma-focused therapy zeroes in on the memories and body responses that keep someone stuck. Work here involves safe processing of traumatic experiences and building coping skills to reduce flashbacks and hypervigilance. Client-centered work adds a listening stance that follows the person's concerns and priorities, helping them feel heard and understood.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Penny will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit their needs. She adjusts strategies over time so sessions stay focused and useful, and she invites feedback about what is or isn't helping.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different days and energy levels. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can serve for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, medical care, or caregiving demands.