Anthony Penn, LPC

Anthony Penn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Virginia with 13 years of counseling experience. He helps people deal with stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and the strain of life changes. He also supports those facing relationship and intimacy-related concerns and career or purpose questions.

He trained with a Master’s degree in Mental Health Rehabilitation Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University and has worked in many settings. That includes private practice, inpatient psychiatric units, partial hospitalization programs, group homes, forensic services, and community mental health programs. He has also worked with active duty, veteran, and retired service members navigating reintegration after combat.

In sessions he leans on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. He mixes in mindfulness to help with staying present and reducing reactivity. Motivational interviewing and client-centered techniques shape how he talks with people about goals and change.

Anthony describes his work as practical and direct. He tends to focus on what is contributing to ongoing anger, stress, or relationship conflict and then practices skills to shift those patterns. Conversations often include concrete tools, short experiments between sessions, and attention to how thoughts and actions connect.

He has experience with trauma and severe mental health concerns and has carried that into community and clinical settings. If someone wants to address anger, attachment, codependency, or communication problems, he encourages them to begin by describing what they want to change.

How Anthony uses ACT, CBT and mindfulness in online work