Military Family Life Counselor: Someone who can offer solutions

Photo By Ana Henderson | If you’ve attended community events at Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), you’ve probably seen Penny Collins. She’s active in the community because she wants to make her services as the YPG Military Family Life Counselor known to Active Duty and recently retired military (less than 180 days separated) members and their family members.  

YUMA PROVING GROUND, AZ, UNITED STATES

11.09.2022

Story by Ana Henderson 

U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground

If you’ve attended community events at Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), you’ve probably seen Penny Collins.

She’s active in the community because she wants to make her services as the YPG Military Family Life Counselor known to Active Duty and recently retired military (less than 180 days separated) members and their family members.

Collins can provide a listening ear to those who need to work through stress, grief, relationship issues, deployments, and daily life issues. She’s been a licensed professional counselor since 1996 and has a wide variety of experience.

“I’ve worked in the public-school settings, I’ve worked in community mental health, I’ve worked with U.S. vets serving the homeless, the veteran population and I’ve owned my own private practice,” explained Collins. She is also a Certified Trauma Practitioner.

As a nationally certified counselor and nationally certified school counselor with a license in Arizona, Collins can provide counseling services to all ages. She spends time at the YPG youth centers and James D. Price Elementary School making her presence known, too.

Those looking for help don’t have to embark on the journey alone. Collins provides one-on-one, couples, family, group, child, and youth counseling. She’s flexible on where she can meet those who need to talk.

“I can meet them on base, off base, anywhere where they feel comfortable,” she remarked.

She reassures those thinking of reaching out that all sessions are confidential unless it deals with cases of abuse. She can provide up to 12 free sessions per issue and they are not recorded or sent to command. Collins wants to help Soldiers and their family work through their issues.

“It’s more short-term and more solution-focused with strategies with how to move forward.”

Collins can be contacted via cell phone at [phone]. She is available for briefings and presentations as well.

• Date Taken: 11.09.2022
• Date Posted: 11.09.2022 16:23
• Story ID: 433001
• Location: YUMA PROVING GROUND, AZ, US