Penny Nevins, LMHC

Penny Nevins is a licensed mental health counselor with 23 years of experience helping people face major life changes and recover from trauma. She works with clients who want clearer self-worth, steadier emotions, and better ways to handle stress from relationships or caregiving roles. Penny practices in Florida and offers a calm, respectful approach to therapy.

Her work focuses on trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people dealing with chronic pain, illness, and disability, family-of-origin problems, blended family stress, and challenges around fertility and divorce. Penny listens for the concrete problems beneath strong feelings and helps clients find practical ways forward.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented while staying client-centered. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns and from solution-focused work to build immediate steps clients can try. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding their own reasons to change.

Penny draws on trauma-focused approaches when past abuse or violence affects daily life. That work moves at the client’s pace and focuses on reducing the hold of painful memories while strengthening coping skills. She emphasizes building resilience and restoring a sense of agency in day-to-day life.

Throughout therapy Penny keeps goals clear and practical. She supports people who are juggling caregiving, health issues, or demanding jobs and helps them develop routines that reduce overwhelm. The aim is steady progress, not quick fixes.

How Penny’s approaches work for online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead, helping people feel heard and understood while they set their own goals. This approach fits well with conversations about long-term stress, relationship strain, or shifts in identity after health changes.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for managing low self-esteem, anger, and mood challenges through concrete exercises and practice.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Penny will work collaboratively to choose methods that match the client's needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the focus as progress is made.

Confirm session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also support consistent work on skills between sessions while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.