Every woman’s healing path is uniquely hers.
Some days you might only need a gentle reminder to return to yourself. Other days, you are ready to meet what lies deep beneath the surface.
This is why each session has its own rhythm and purpose, to meet you where you are.
You may feel called to this space if...
You’re a woman who often feels tired, overwhelmed, or stuck in loops of overthinking and over-giving.
You’re seeking a therapy space that welcomes all of who you are: neurodiversity-affirming, gender-diverse and queer-affirming, where your culture and spiritual practices are honoured.
You might be experiencing anxiety, depression, panic, phobias, or PTSD, or carrying the pain of trauma from childhood neglect, abuse, violence, accidents, or other distressing events.
You sometimes feel unsure of your needs, or find yourself in patterns of people-pleasing, over-caring, or losing yourself in relationships.
You long to exhale, your mind to quiet, and your spirit to return to what feels true.
You may need a different kind of support if:
You are in immediate crisis or unsafe circumstances, such as homelessness, mental health crisis, or an unsafe situation.
You are coping with alcohol or drugs in ways that impact daily functioning.
You are experiencing active suicidal intent.
You require more intensive or specialist care than weekly or fortnightly therapy.
You need medico-legal reports, court assessments, or psychiatric diagnoses.
If your current needs feel more urgent or outside the scope of what I offer, please explore the Crisis Support Section or reach out to a local service that can support you right now.
You're always welcome to return if your situation changes.
My Approach
In every session, I weave together evidence-based methods such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, parts work, and somatic therapy. Each of these approaches help us to work with both mind and body, at a pace that supports your nervous system and healing.
If you are curious about what lights my lantern, the approaches and philosophy that guide my trauma healing work, you can read more here.
When you’re ready, the next step is choosing the rhythm of support that meets you where you are.
Below are the pathways we can walk together.
Other than free Q & A session, all other options are available as online or in person in Shepparton.
Session Pathways
Free Q & A Call
20 minutes
This free 20 -minute online call is a chance to meet, where you can ask questions, get a sense of how I work, and see whether this space feels right for you. There is no pressure, a space to explore working together.
Building Steady Ground
50 minutes
Fee: AUD $ 200
This is the standard session, often where we begin. We move at a slower pace, checking in with your body and finding the rhythm that works for your nervous system. Together, we build shared language, sometimes with metaphors or a touch of “nerdy” psycho-education, to make sense of your experience.
The focus is on getting to know you, resourcing you, and strengthening your inner supports so you feel capable when challenges arise. Over time, many women notice that sleep becomes more restful, their thoughts quieter, and daily stresses more manageable. Like lighting a lantern in a dim room, these sessions bring enough clarity and warmth to help you begin finding your way inside.
Deep Processing
90 minutes
Fee: AUD $ 300
These longer sessions give us time to stay with what surfaces instead of stopping halfway. Once we both feel ready, we can focus more deeply on trauma processing — helping your mind and body release what happened, repair what was missed, and relearn in the present.
The extra time often means you leave feeling more settled and less “half-finished.” Women describe breathing more easily, thinking with more clarity, and noticing a quieter body after carrying stress for so long. With space to move between processing and grounding, the work goes deeper without leaving you raw. It can be a turning point for shifting long-held patterns and beginning to relate to yourself with more compassion. Carrying the lantern deeper into the cave lights what was hidden, allowing healing to unfold at a pace that feels right for you.
Therapy Intensives
Package: AUD 2,065
Includes 90 min intake, 6 hours intensive, 50 min post intensive session and resources
For women with prior therapy experience who want to shift more in a shorter span, Intensives offer several hours of focused time together. We move through connected areas of your story and create lasting flow.
After an Intensive
Many women notice their thinking feels clearer and it is easier to get unstuck from loops. The body often feels a sense of relief, with breath becoming lighter and sleep less disturbed. Patterns that once felt stuck begin to shift, and Intensives can feel like a reset, with reflection practices and rituals to help continue the progress afterwards. It can feel like carrying a lantern long enough for its light to reach tangled paths, making space for a new way forward.
This work isn’t about discarding your past. Instead, it’s about making sense of on your experiences so you can make choices that brings joy, and come home to yourself.
What Participants Often Notice...
Set boundaries with more clarity and softness
Recognise patterns and triggers before they hijack
Experience fewer intense emotional waves, and recover more quickly when they come
Build simple Rituals of care that anchor your daily life
Feel safer in their bodies and in their world
Relate to their feelings and sensations with more kindness
Sense more connection to themselves, their relationships, their culture and their spirituality
Even when storms arrive, the lantern of therapy helps you to see more clearly, and keep moving towards what and who matters to you.
How does this work?
If you’re interested in starting therapy with me, here’s what you can expect:
Set 1
Begin
If you are ready to start, you are welcome to book a session.
Or, if you would like to meet first, you can book a free online Q&A call. It is a space to ask questions and get a feel for what it is like to work together. During this call, I will share a little about what sessions look like and offer a few gentle practices to try in the meantime.
Set 2
Participating in Sessions
In our first session, we talk about your challenges, strengths, and goals for therapy. Together, we create a plan to move gently toward those goals.
As we progress in therapy, you might notice:
More calm in your body and mind
Greater ease in relationships, as people-pleasing patterns soften
Energy returning for what matters most to you
Sleep that feels more restful
Set 3
More Capacity to everyday Moments
In everyday moments, you carry a sense of choice into your everyday life.
The skills and awareness built in sessions create space between trigger and response, so you can respond with intention in moments that once felt automatic.
Moment by moment, you become more present with yourself and with others, grounded in confidence and clarity, trusting that you are enough.
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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