Our Purpose.

HerSpace is the first not-for-profit organisation specialising in providing trauma-informed wellbeing and mental health recovery services to women survivors (aged 16 and over) of exploitation in Australia. There is an urgent need for women survivors in Australia to receive specialised therapeutic support. These women are currently at risk of falling through the cracks of available wellbeing and mental health recovery supports.

Exploitation includes all forms of sexual exploitation, human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices such as servitude, forced labour, debt bondage, deceptive practices to obtain labour or services and forced marriage.

We believe that every woman has the right to the opportunity to recover from adverse experiences to go on to live a life of purpose and hope. The recovery journey for women who have experienced exploitation can be long, painful and difficult. Our programs are designed from the lived experience of women survivors who have healed from trauma and gone on to live happier and safer lives.

We take a holistic approach to supporting survivors of exploitation in Australia to recover their wellbeing and purpose. Our services are trauma-informed, client-led and individually tailored to the unique needs of each woman.  Our team of specialist therapeutic staff utilise a diverse range of evidence-informed therapeutic modalities, including conventional talk therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, art therapy, dance/movement therapy, body-based approaches, mindfulness approaches, systemic approaches and interventions for working with dissociative systems.