A space that meets the whole of you
Therapy here welcomes the whole YOU - body, mind, culture and spirit.
When all parts of you are invited into the room, healing can move with more ease.
When the path of healing leads you here..
Many women often come when they are tired of holding it all together.
They speak of feeling caught in old patterns or disconnected from themselves.
Some have sought help before, but the changes did not last.
Others carry spiritual experiences that have been dismissed or misunderstood, and they want a place where body, mind, and spirit can all be part of the conversation.
What I notice Beneath the Surface
Sleep is restless
Work feels heavy
Parenting and Relationships are strained
Peace, delight and joy feel far away
Activities that once brought happiness fall away
Survival strategies such as anxiety, depression, or disconnection become more frequent
When Patterns are met with Care
Sleep deepens
More peace with the unfinished list
Your needs, strengths and limits grow clearer
Relationships realign (some softens, some fades)
Connection strengthens, within yourself, with people in your world, nature
Feel a sense of worth or enoughness and brings a smile when you are with yourself
These patterns aren't only personal, they're shaped by family, culture and the systems we live in. Alongside love, many of us inherited strategies that no longer serve us. So part of the work is asking, "Is this mine or did it come from somewhere else?"
What happens in a Session?
We begin with comfort like light, scent, chair, space. You can move, pause, yawn, burp, laugh, or cry.
All of it is welcome.
We follow what arises such as a sensation, a memory, a thought, a wave of feeling. Nothing is forced or rushed.
We use what helps. Sometimes EMDR, sometimes somatic practices, sometimes quiet. Each step has a purpose, and I explain why I invite it so you are never left wondering.
We use what helps. Sometimes EMDR, sometimes somatic practices, sometimes quiet. Each step has a purpose, and I explain why I invite it so you are never left wondering.
We close in a way that prepares you for daily life — breath, feet on the floor, an image that brings calm. The aim isn’t to be finished, but to leave with enough to step back into your life.
How I work?
At the heart of my approach is connection, with your presence, my presence, and the space we create together.
👁️ Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
Helps your mind and body reprocess what once felt too much, so it can be remembered differently and integrated with new information.
🌿 Somatic therapy
Guides us to listen closely to body's signals, like noticing tight chest or restless legs and letting them lead the healing.
Somatic practices are helpful in grounding us to here and now when our thinking hundred miles an hour.
🧩 Parts Work
Creates a safe way to meet the different voices or feelings inside you with compassion rather than conflict, so each part feels heard.
🎨 Expressive arts
Uses drawing, music, or movement to give shape to what words alone cannot carry.
All of these approaches are held together by values and compassion, supporting you to live in alignment with what matters most to you and in relationship with the people who matter most.
Spirituality is welcome here in many forms: prayer with or for your parts, guidance from spiritual figures or inner resources, songs that support the nervous system, creative practices like drawing or tarot to bring the subconscious into view.
The thread through all of this is attunement to the present moment and trust in the process. Trust in your survival, in the wisdom of your parts, in my intuition and spiritual guidance, and in what the session reveals.
It is a practice of truthfulness, humility, and choice. Like a puzzle, the pieces you already hold are valid, and together we explore how they fit until more of the picture can be seen.
Beginning your journey
Therapy is not a quick fix — it’s a space to listen, to experiment, and to grow into ways of living that feel true for you.
Change unfolds in seasons, sometimes slow and quiet, sometimes full of movement.
If this approach speaks to you, you might begin by booking a session or a free Q&A to explore the services I offer.the first step.
You don't have to continue walking on your own. Let's light the lantern and walk together for a while.
Crisis & 24/7 Mental Health Support
If you are in crisis or at risk, please contact (Australia):
Emergency: 000
Lifeline: 13 11 14
Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467
Your local Mental Health Triage
If you are in the Goulburn Valley region, support is also available via Mental Health Triage:1300 369 005
(All above numbers are 24/7)
If you are seeking support but not in crisis (Australia):
Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636 (24/7 support)
Griefline: 1300 845 745 (8am–8pm, 7 days/week)
Parent Line (Victoria) :13 22 89 (8am–midnight, 7 days/week)
Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 (24/7 support for ages 5–25)
Safe Steps (Family Violence): 1800 015 188 (24/7 family violence response)
1800 RESPECT (Sexual Assault/DV) : 1800 737 732 (24/7 national sexual assault/domestic violence)
I, as a South Indian woman, owner and practitioner of Serenity Counselling and Consulting Services acknowledges the Yorta Yorta people as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded land, waters and community where I live and work. I acknowledge the tribes of Aboriginal people who lost their connection to the land, waters and community during colonisation.
I extend my respect to the Ancestral wisdom, as well as Elders past, present and emerging. I also pay my respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people visiting this website and accessing service via Serenity Counselling and Consulting Services.
I strive to provide a space that is inclusive of your disability, neurodivergence, diverse bodies, participants from LGBTIQASBP+ communities , race, skin colour, and ethnicity where your lived experience is valued, your voice is heard and respected. I am committed to offer a space where your strengths and expertise is celebrated. I am committed to continue my process of unlearning of internalised -isms and learning from lived experience voices.
I am dedicated to offer a space that is evolving with listening and reflecting of experiences of participants that I have a the honour of working with, colleagues that generously shares their wisdom as well as the teachers I have the privilege of learning from.
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A lit lantern space for the weary, inviting you back to yourself.
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