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 provides culturally safe, trauma-informed and neuro-affirming support for women impacted by family violence and trauma, neurodivergent women—including those diagnosed later in life—and people working in high-stress caring professions.
Counselling, individual supervision and group supervision sessions are offered online via telehealth, making support more accessible across locations. In-person workshops and other group programs are coming soon.
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 →02Neurodivergent women
Neuro-affirming early intervention and recovery programs for women ready to understand masking, overwhelm, identity and how to create a life that fits.
Learn more →03Clinical supervision
Reflective, grounded supervision for counsellors and practitioners working in emotionally demanding roles.
Learn more →04Diverse needs
100% private and confidential support shaped around each woman’s culture, identity, neurotype, lived experience and goals.
Learn more →05Wellness workshops
Culturally responsive workshops that strengthen wellbeing, connection, self-understanding and sustainable ways of caring for yourself.
Learn more →06Healing programs
Women-centred programs supporting recovery, empowerment, self-advocacy and self-determination through the Women Assist Healing Model™.
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.
The Women Assist Healing Model™ provides a framework for self-determination, empowering women to strengthen their voice, advocate for themselves and make choices that reflect their needs, values and hopes for the future.
Discover the healing model- 01Safety & stabilisation
- 02Regulation & resourcing
- 03Insight & meaning
- 04Reconnection & integration
Meet the founder
“Through lived experience and thousands of clinical hours, one truth is clear: every woman deserves to be heard, supported and empowered.”
Cassandra Allen is a PACFA-accredited clinical counsellor, clinical supervisor and author, with more than 20 years’ experience and extensive leadership experience across the community health, family violence and crisis-support sectors.
About Cassandra
Inclusion & allyship
A welcoming space for every woman.
Women Assist welcomes women of all ethnicities, cultures, faiths, sexualities and life experiences. This includes women from Muslim and Indian communities, neurodivergent and late-diagnosed women, and LGBTQIA+ women.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are warmly welcomed. Cassandra has provided more than 1,000 hours of counselling support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. This experience informs a culturally responsive, trauma-informed approach that centres safety, voice, choice and self-determination.
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