Pace belongs to you
We never set the speed of someone’s healing. We follow it, and we say so out loud when the system tries to override it.
About the practice
Built around the person, not the calendar.
Fennwick is one room, a few trusted hands, and a refusal to rush. We exist because the people we love kept being asked to heal efficiently - and healing is the one thing that won’t be hurried.
Origin
Maelis Fennwick spent a decade inside systems that measured care in throughput. She left to build the opposite.
In 2016 she opened a single practice room in Richmond with one rule: nobody gets moved along before they’re ready. What began as one-to-one inner-child work grew, slowly, to include the practical things that kept derailing it - confusion over access and benefits, and the quiet shame so many people carried about their own bodies after hard years.
Today the practice is still small on purpose. We turn people away rather than overfill the week. Everyone who works here has done their own version of this work, and none of us pretend otherwise.
What we hold to
Four principles we won’t trade away.
Access is not an add-on
Every room, form and conversation is built to be reachable. If it isn’t accessible, it isn’t finished.
No shame in the room
Whatever brought you here - old trauma, paperwork, a face you stopped looking at - it is met plainly, without judgement.
Honesty over retention
If we’re not the right place for you, we say it early and point you somewhere better. Keeping clients is never the goal.
The people
A small team, fully present.
Three practitioners, one practice. You’ll always know exactly who you’re sitting with.
Maelis Fennwick
Founder · Lead practitioner
Holds the inner-child and reparenting work. Trauma-informed, somatic, and unhurried to a fault. Founded the practice in 2016.
Tobiah Render
Access & advocacy lead
Translates the access maze into plain language. Sits with clients and families through identifiers, benefits and the practical scaffolding of a good life.
Calla Okonjo
Renewal & referrals
Guides the gentle personal-renewal work and curates our network of trauma-aware skin and cosmetic specialists. Believes self-care is a right, not a reward.
When you’re ready
Come see whether the room fits.
A first conversation is free, unhurried, and entirely without obligation.