I’m the founder of Panna Counseling & Consulting Services.
Here's what nobody tells you about transformation: you can change your entire body and still feel like the same person who hated it.
I know because I've been there. Divorced. Starting over. Sitting in my car in a parking lot wondering how the hell I got here - again. I have the PhD, the license, the practice, the clinical expertise. And I still couldn't figure out why I kept choosing the wrong men, abandoning myself for approval, and performing a version of "fine" that was anything but.
So I did what any good researcher does - I studied it. My doctoral research followed 800+ women who'd had massive weight loss transformations. Women who thought changing the outside would fix the inside. What I found changed my entire career and became The After Identity Gap™ - the framework behind everything I do.
I'm a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, a clinical sexologist, and the creator of The Naked Confidence Protocol™. I founded the Sex and Intimacy After Weight Loss Surgery (SIAWLS) community - almost 15,000 members and counting. I teach undergraduate and graduate-level courses. And I'm writing two books:
📖 Skin Deep - a guide for women navigating identity, intimacy, and confidence after weight loss surgery (built on my doctoral research with 800+ women and thousands of coaching and therapy sessions).
📖 She Makes Bad Decisions: Dating, Divorce, and Dumpster Fires - a memoir about why smart women keep choosing wrong, staying too long, and abandoning themselves for someone who was never going to choose them back.
I'm from Jersey. Right outside Philly. I curse. I'm funny. I'm punchy. And I will never, ever talk to you like a textbook. If you want someone who gets it - clinically AND personally - you're in the right place.
Hi, I’m Sex Dr. V
I don't do cookie-cutter. I don't do scripts. And I sure as hell don't do the "everything happens for a reason" brand of therapy.
Here's what I actually do: I show up as a clinician with twenty years of training AND as a woman who's lived it. Research, frameworks, and clinical precision - paired with real talk, Jersey-grade honesty, and the kind of humor that makes hard conversations survivable.
My work is built on one truth: you can't heal what you won't name, and you can't name what you've been taught to hide.
You bring the mess. I bring the map. 👑
My Approach
Simple ideas
I don't believe in sanitized therapy. I don't believe in performing wellness. And I definitely don't believe the version of "fine" most women are walking around in.
Every framework I've built - every session, every program, every page of every book - starts in the same place: what's the thing you haven't said out loud yet?
That's where the work actually lives.
Work that Lasts
Quick fixes are cute. They're also bullshit.
I'm not here to hand you a mantra and send you home. I'm here to help you do the work that actually holds — so six months from now you're not back in the same cycle with a different man, a different body, or a different story about why you're not enough.
Clarity. Truth. Depth. Results you can feel in your bones.
That's the work.
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30+ years of experience walking alongside children, teens, and families through the hard stuff - the transitions, the tension, the moments when life stops making sense.
My work is rooted in one belief: people don't need to be fixed. They need to be heard. Really heard. And then they need a skilled partner to help them figure out what to do next.
I bring evidence-based practice, decades of lived clinical experience, and a deep respect for the fact that you are the expert on your own life. Together, we'll build the coping tools, the clarity, and the resilience you need to move forward - at a pace that feels right for you.
Whether you're navigating stress, a life transition, a strained relationship, or something you can't quite name yet - you don't have to figure it out alone.
Hi, I’m Jody
What to Expect in Our First Session
Our first session is about two things: getting to know each other, and making sure this feels like the right fit.
You'll have space to share what's bringing you in - as much or as little as you're ready for. I'll ask some questions, listen closely, and explain how therapy works with me. We'll begin mapping out what you want this process to look like, and by the end, you'll walk away with a sense of direction and a plan that feels like yours.
No pressure. No script. Just a conversation between two people, one of whom happens to have spent three decades in this chair.
What I Bring to Our Work Together
30+ years as a school counselor taught me something no textbook could: how to hear what isn't being said.
I don't just listen to your words. I listen to the pauses. The shifts. The things you almost said and pulled back. After decades of sitting with complex family systems, life transitions, and quiet crises, I've learned that the most important work often starts in what gets left out.
My job is to create a space where you feel safe enough to say the hard things, understood enough to stop performing, and supported enough to do the real work. That's what I bring to every session. That's the foundation of how I practice.
Chief Emotional Support Officer & Co-Teacher/Co-Therapist with Sex Dr. V.
Every empire needs a steady heart at the center of it. Parker is ours!
He joined the team as Sex Dr. V's personal support system and quickly promoted himself to Chief Emotional Support Officer, Co-Teacher and Co-Therapist in Residence, and Unofficial Brand Mascot. His credentials include: being really good at listening, showing up without being asked, and somehow knowing exactly when someone needs to cry.
Parker's clinical philosophy is simple - people don't always need more advice. Sometimes they just need to be near something that loves them with zero conditions attached.
He doesn't bill. He doesn't lecture. He doesn't make you talk about your mother. He just is - which, as it turns out, is one of the most therapeutic things in the world.
If you catch him in a video, on the podcast, or photobombing a Reel, give him a wave. He'll remember you.