Lummi Island & Bellingham, washington

therapy & retreats

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your struggles are not failures; they arE sign-posts guiding you home.

Whether you’re experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, loneliness or despair, your suffering holds the keys to what needs healing in your life. I offer a soft space to land, to slow down, to let go, to feel all that needs to be felt. We will give voice to the parts of you that have been silenced. We will tend to the parts of you that have felt unloved. And we will weave them into wholeness and belonging.

This is the transformative process of psychotherapy - the weaving together of unseen, unhealed, unknown, unrealized parts of us that begin to coalesce into a vital, alchemical soil for growth. The stuck becomes fluid, the unconscious comes into light.

Whether you’re longing to reclaim your life, to reconnect with your partner, or to heal intergenerational trauma, I welcome you to my island sanctuary for therapeutic sessions, immersions or retreats.

Client Reflections

  • “As always, myself, my family, and my friends are forever grateful to you. You are the keystone of my recovery.”

  • “ I am the happiest I’ve ever been in my life, and a lot of that has to do with you and the guidance you gave me.”

  • “Thank you for helping me look truth in the face. It's been such a rewarding journey; it's filled our home with joy.”

  • "I was so lost, but you helped me believe in myself again. Your care brought me back from the edge, and gave me my voice."

  • "I am so immensely grateful. You breathed life into me when I felt trampled. You helped me discover who I truly am."

Work with Penny

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therapy for individuals

I integrate psychotherapy with body awareness, breathwork, and dreamwork to support deep, whole-person healing. Together we’ll identify patterns, process grief and trauma, strengthen relationships, and build a life that feels grounded and authentic.

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therapy for couples

If you’re navigating marital burnout, betrayal, or chronic conflict, I am here for both of you. Together, we will explore the root of your problem, uncover hidden patterns, and cultivate the emotional safety needed for expression, connection, and repair.

Couples on the brink rediscover what made them fall in love in the first place. Couples who part ways are supported in doing so peacefully - with care and compassion for everyone involved.

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therapy for families

Unresolved trauma can often be passed down through generations in the form of unhealthy patterns and harmful beliefs. This work focuses on untangling the knots of your parents and grandparents’ pain in order to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma. We will learn how to have skilled conversations, make emotional repair, and even create welcome-back ceremonies as part of your family’s healing.

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Therapy Options

immersions

Individuals
$3000+ / 2-Day Immersion (~15h)

Couples
$5000+ / 2-Day Immersion (~15h)

Immersions allow for accelerated healing by creating the momentum to go deeper in less time. Immersions include 1h pre and post sessions, a personal binder of materials, and catering.

retreats

Individuals
$4000+ / 3-Day Retreat

Couples
$6000+ / 3-Day Retreat

Retreats include everything in an Immersion, with additional space to slow down and nourish the senses, be it through hikes, breathwork, or yoga on the beach. Island accommodation can be arranged.

sessions

Individuals
$200 / 1.5h session

Couples
$300 / 1.5h session

This can be a good place to begin our journey together. These unrushed sessions allow for a deeper experience than the typical 55-min session. Longer or online sessions can also be arranged.

Why therapeutic immersions & retreats?

Begin your Healing Journey

We live in a world where the demands on our energy and attention leave little space for us to go inwards. But true healing requires us to slow down and go deep below the surface of our everyday lives. After 40 years working in this field, I have created a therapeutic sanctuary on Lummi Island to support just that.

I love Therapeutic Immersions because they can potentially distill months of weekly therapy into a weekend. While typical 55-min weekly sessions require that we step in and out of the therapeutic flow, Immersions and Retreats allow us to ride the momentum, going deep enough to experience breakthroughs, metabolize emotions, and change neural pathways - in the here and now.

Immersions are particularly beneficial for those who have reached a crisis point and need deep yet accelerated healing. They can also be deeply nourishing for those that crave a life and nervous system reset, amidst the peace and beauty of nature.