Penny Rawson has published articles in various journals and has done a great deal of research into brief psychodynamic psychotherapy. She is the author of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Analysis of Key Principles (2002) and Grappling with Grief (2004), which has been described as a book that normalizes grief. She is the Director of FASTPACE, a consultancy specializing in brief psychodynamic therapy, training and supervision. She has served on a number of National committees including the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy's Accreditation and Standards and Ethics.