Penelope "Penny" McBride, LCSW
Licensed in New York · 26 years in practice
Penelope "Penny" McBride is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and family concerns.
License and registration
- LCSW, New York
- 077548 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1679720940 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 26
- Languages
- English
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About Penelope
Penelope "Penny" McBride is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and family concerns. She writes plainly and listens carefully to each person's story. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit everyday life.
With 26 years of experience, Penny blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive and behavioral tools. She helps people recognize unhelpful patterns, practice new ways of relating, and build coping skills for mood changes and grief.
Background and approach
Conversations often include straightforward strategies for managing anxiety, anger, and relationship problems. Penny also brings experience working with addiction, eating and food-related issues, and compassion fatigue. She supports people through career transitions, parenting stresses, and the challenges of caregiving.
Her work covers both immediate coping and longer-term changes in how people communicate and set boundaries. Her style is collaborative and practical. She uses elements of DBT skills when emotions feel overwhelming and draws on Gottman-informed ideas when relationship work is needed.
The emphasis is on usable tools people can try between sessions. Penny practices in New York and offers sessions in English. She aims to help people build resilience, recover from setbacks, and find clearer ways to make choices that match their values.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Penelope lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Penelope names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can use this approach to look at patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Client-centered therapy puts the person's perspective at the center of every session. The therapist listens deeply and helps people find their own solutions, whether the work is about anxiety, grief, or life direction.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change each part. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with change and translates well to video or chat-based sessions where worksheets and skills practice can be shared.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Penny will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she will adjust the mix as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for full conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates or work through thoughts between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Penny commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and family or relationship difficulties. Additional focus areas include grief, eating issues, caregiver stress, and career or life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Penny uses a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening and practical steps. She combines that with attachment-based thinking and cognitive-behavioral tools to help change thoughts and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 26 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns, from mood disorders to addictions and relationship struggles.
Where does she practice and what are her credentials?
She practices in New York and is a licensed clinical social worker, listed as LCSW in New York.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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