Rebekkah Pennington

Rebekkah Pennington is a seasoned mental health professional and counselor based in Texas with 30 years of clinical experience. She has worked in the addictions and mental health field since 1993 and brings decades of personal experience dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, including early study with recovery pioneers John Bradshaw, Claudia Black, and Pia Melody.

Her own recovery began on January 14, 1991, an experience that inspired her to pursue professional training so she could support others on similar paths. She has completed college-level study in Addictions, Social Work, Criminal Justice, Rehabilitation Sciences, and Professional Counseling, and has pursued years of additional training across multiple treatment settings.

Pennington has provided services in hospitals, residential programs, intensive outpatient and supportive outpatient settings, aftercare programs, jails, and prisons. She has worked extensively in therapeutic community environments and has longstanding experience with adolescents, high-risk youth, and adult populations involved in the criminal justice system in Texas.

Her areas of specialization include addictions treatment and intervention, trauma recovery, relapse prevention, codependency work, and a broad range of mental health diagnoses such as schizophrenia, depression, borderline personality disorder, and bipolar disorder. Over the course of her career she has accumulated decades of focused work: 28 years in trauma recovery, 28 years in relapse prevention, 28 years addressing various mental health diagnoses, 35 years of work related to codependency, 15 years working with addicted high-risk adolescents, and 30 years serving in criminal justice institutions.

Pennington’s therapeutic approach centers on building authentic relationships and honoring each person’s self-knowledge. She prefers person-centered and solution-focused methods within an integrative framework, drawing on approaches such as experiential therapy, strength-based work, trauma-focused interventions, mindfulness-based techniques, Christian counseling when appropriate, and 12-step components. Culturally sensitive practice and attention to family and relationship dynamics are consistent elements of her work.

Holding a Texas professional counseling credential (TX LPC 66074), Rebekkah Pennington aims to support clients who are ready to engage in meaningful change and recovery. She invites motivated individuals to partner with her in pursuing improved quality of life and renewed sense of self.