Therapeutic Services for Women
Trauma-informed · Neuro-affirming · Culturally safe
You don’t have to hold it all together here.
Therapeutic support for women ready to feel safer, understand themselves and reconnect with who they are.
Welcome to Women Assist
A space where you can arrive exactly as you are.
Women Assist supports women impacted by family violence and trauma, women navigating ADHD and neurodivergence, and people working in high-stress caring professions.
Our work begins with understanding—not fixing. Together, we create the safety and space needed for meaningful, sustainable change.
Across counselling, programs, workshops and professional supervision, Women Assist contributes to prevention, early intervention and long-term recovery by strengthening safety, knowledge, connection and self-trust.
Meet Cassandra →How we can support you
Care that honours the whole woman.
Trauma counselling
A safe, relational space to understand the impacts of trauma, rebuild self-trust and move at your own pace.
Learn more →02Neuro-affirming support
Counselling that honours ADHD and neurodivergence without asking you to mask or work against the way your mind works.
Learn more →03Clinical supervision
Reflective, grounded supervision for counsellors and practitioners working in emotionally demanding roles.
Learn more →The Women Assist Healing Model™
From survival toward healing and empowerment.
Our signature framework brings together trauma recovery, neurodivergent self-understanding, identity, empowerment and connection.
Discover the healing model- 01Safety & stabilisation
- 02Regulation & resourcing
- 03Insight & meaning
- 04Reconnection & integration
Meet the founder
“I created Women Assist so women could feel safe enough to be fully themselves.”
Cassandra Allen is a clinical counsellor, psychotherapist and accredited clinical supervisor with more than 20 years’ experience across the helping sector.
About Cassandra
Inclusion & allyship
A welcoming space for every woman.
Women Assist welcomes people from all cultures, backgrounds, faiths, sexualities and life experiences who identify as women. This includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and women who are lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender and/or intersex.
Women Assist stands in allyship with the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria and supports its work toward Treaty, truth-telling and Aboriginal self-determination.
Australian Aboriginal Flag designed by Harold Thomas. Progress Pride Flag designed by Daniel Quasar.
A gentler place to begin