Rainbow Sprout Wellness
Offering Mental Health Care to adults, teens, and children in the Greater Seattle Area.
It’s all about relationship
At Rainbow Sprout Wellness, we understand that each person has a unique experience in the world. We also understand that we live in a country founded on the systemic oppression of black and brown people, queer people, gender expansive people, neurodivergent people, disabled people, and women both cis and trans. Both of these truths highly impact the way we show up to support the mental health of children, teens, and young adults in our communities. That’s why authentic relationship is at the center of the therapy we provide.
We understand that traditional talk therapy does not always work for everyone. Sometimes the pain is so deep that we can’t find the words to express or explain that it is there and impacting us. That’s why our approach is rooted in play. Play offers all of us (kids, teens, and adults alike) the chance to explore and express without needing words. Allowing for integration to take place.
We understand that healing does not happen alone. We need community to help inform our values, to teach us how to show compassion to ourselves and others, and to reflect our strengths and growth edges. This is why supporting the parent/caregiver-child relationship is a priority in our work and why we offer therapy groups to grow together in community.
Our Services
Individual for Adults & Teens
Lina offers 50 minute individual therapy session for teens and adults to gain support when you need it most. Whether you are struggling with anxiety and depression, exploring your gender or sexual identity, or wanting to work through trauma or family of origin patterns, I’m here to support you.
50 minutes | $150
Play Therapy for Kids & Adults
Play therapy sessions are usually a one on one 45-50 minute session with Lina. During these sessions, Lina will use client directed play, role playing, art projects, games, books, and music to help you or your child reach their mental health goals.
45-50 minutes | $150
Child Parent Relationship
Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) is a chance for you and your child to build a stronger relationship based in mutual understanding. CPRT is a structured 10 to 12 session commitment during which you receive the coaching necessary to become a healing agent of change in your child’s life through play.
Individual or Two Coparents 2 hr sessions | $300*
*Groups offered occasionally at a lower group rate
Meet our Therapist
Lina Chavez-Penner, MA, LMHCA
“Hi, I’m Lina. I’m a queer, white, latinx, femme therapist offering mental health support in the greater Seattle area. If I could change anything about the world, I would increase our compassionate curiosity for ourselves and others. My training has taught me that we learn through experience. So that’s my goal as a therapist, to increase compassion and curiosity in every person I work with no matter their age by giving them that same compassionate curiosity in each session.”
Lina studied counseling psychology at The Seattle School where she focused on the neurobiology of mental health, attachment theory, psychodynamic relational theory, and social justice approaches to therapy. She has a post graduate certificate in Play Therapy from Antioch University Seattle where she completed practical courses in play therapy, sand tray therapy, and filial therapy (CPRT). Lina is working toward full licensure in Washington state and Registered Play Therapist certification under the supervision of Cary Hamilton, MA LMHC RPT-S, who is the current president of the Washington chapter of the Association for Play Therapy., where Lina currently serves on the board. With over 10 years of experience in the mental health field including working for foster care agencies, community mental health agencies, youth support groups, Edmonds community college, and one of the first comprehensive care clinics for prenatal exposure, Lina is excited to support the community through the services offered at Rainbow Sprout Wellness. Lina brings her whole self to the therapeutic experience making therapy sessions and groups a welcoming and authentic space.
“Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair; it helps us learn perseverance and gain optimism.”
— Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of The National Institute for Play