
Pennie Sheppard, BACP
About me
Welcome to Online Counselling, I am a MBACP Integrative Counsellor and FHT Therapeutic Body Psychotherapist.
With over 14 years experience in helping clients with stress, depression, anxiety, coping with addictions, trauma and abuse, motivation, self esteem, dissociation disorders, PTSD, long term illness, MS, fibromyalgia, learning disabilities, and forms of autism spectrum disorders.
Online Counselling provides an opportunity to explore a personal difficulty in a confidential and supportive environment. This may include expressing feelings that are painful, and which many of us experience at times in certain periods in our lives. When this happens it can be difficult to stay positive and cope with everyday life. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity and compassion. I will tailor our dialogue and treatment plan to meet your unique and specific needs.
As a Therapeutic Body Psychotherapist we can explore at your own pace, choice and time. Gestalt Therapy, Mindfulness, Breathing and Relaxation techniques can help you with this process and helps you alongside your self-discovery of your mind, body and soul healing journey.
I look forward to supporting you on your Journey.
" You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf" (Jon Kabet-Zinn)
Professional experience
Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Grief, Anger management, Depression, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Antisocial personality, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Avoidant personality, Blended family issues, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Emptiness, Family problems, Fertility issues, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Sexual assault and abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems
Credentials information
BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP #375353
Reviews
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Pennie is a wonderful therapist! She is very reliable and kind. I found her to be really supportive, encouraging and cares about the situation you are going through! She is also very knowledgeable about different therapy techniques which I found helpful ?
Written on Apr 04, 2025 after therapy with Pennie for 5 months on issues concerning addictions, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and anger management
Pennie is highly skilled, knowledgeable but above all supportive, she understands me and how to get me in the right mindset to succeed and start to address my issues
Written on Apr 01, 2025 after therapy with Pennie for 3 months on issues concerning depression, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd
Have only had one session and it was good
Written on Sep 08, 2024 after therapy with Pennie for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, and bipolar disorder
Still have a journey ahead of me! But I’m getting closer to my goals and my healing! I’m so fortunate to have been paired with Pennie! I never expected virtual therapy to be this rewarding. It hasn’t been easy! But she’s helped my get out of the darkness into the light more than anyone will ever know.
Written on Jul 23, 2024 after therapy with Pennie for 1 year and 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
Pennie has done what no other therapist could do for me. In just two sessions, she got me excited about life again, and helped me believe in myself. She is truly a blessing!
Written on Mar 12, 2024 after therapy with Pennie for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and self esteem
Pennie is Fantastic!
She listens, she hears the pain and works with you to help you come out the other side.
Some things are quite quick and solutions are found fast. Others are hidden and take time to come out before they can be healed. Pennie always seems to know which to follow with divine timing.
Truely blessed to have her in my life. It's like having a walking talking guardian angel
Written on Sep 20, 2023 after therapy with Pennie for 6 months