Penelope Surber, LMHC

Penelope Surber is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with eight years of clinical experience supporting adults through difficult life transitions and trauma. She has extensive experience working with depression, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, addictions, and relationship difficulties, and has helped many women cope with childhood trauma and multiple forms of abuse.

Penelope takes a warm, person-centered approach that is interactive and respectful. She emphasizes sensitivity, empathy, and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels. Her counseling blends cognitive and behavioral strategies with humanistic and relational techniques so each session is tailored to the individual’s goals and circumstances.

Her areas of focus include abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, caregiver stress, family-of-origin concerns, communication and control problems, dissociation, and the effects of domestic violence and divorce. Penelope also supports clients facing first responder stress, grief and loss, guilt and shame, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.

Penelope works collaboratively to create a practical treatment plan rooted in the client’s strengths and readiness for change. She welcomes people seeking recovery, greater emotional balance, and improved self-worth, and she accepts both local and international clients for remote therapy.