For women ready to connect, discover and grow.
Starting Monday September 15 and Thursday September 18
The Threshold is an eight-week, therapist-created and led course for midlife women who are ready to stop pushing all their frustrations and disappointments down, ready to stop pretending that their discontent doesn't matter, and stop believing the lie that 'it’s all just too late.'
You’ve hit a point where something has to shift - not in a magical, dramatic, overnight transformation kind of way, I'm not the Fairy Godmother and you're not Cinderella. Instead this is a gentle, steady return to yourself - your values, your hopes, your dreams.
This course offers supported practical steps to help you:
It’s not group therapy and it’s not just 'self-help'. It’s something in between - an heart-focused, therapist-guided offering to help you imagine a new way forward.
This journey is for women who:
There are 6 spaces available in each group.
A private Facebook group will be available throughout the 8 weeks for those who’d like to stay connected, share reflections, or access bonus content between sessions.
This space is softly held — there if you want it, ok if its not your thing.
We’ll meet once a week for 2 hours in a quiet, welcoming space in Morpeth (it is a shoes off venue). These sessions are carefully held and mindfully paced. Each week includes:
This is not a talking-circle or a free-for-all. It’s a guided, intentional experience designed to help you gently untangle, understand, an explore your potential for creating something new.
Settle in. Create your emotional support kit (resources provided).
We’ll gently ease into the group, name the unspoken rules we carry, and begin building our personalised toolboxes - with items, practices, and rituals that help us feel safer, calmer, and more resourced.
Understanding inner chatter and learning to unhook.
This week we look at the harsh inner critic, self-doubt, and inherited beliefs.
We'll begin to question who’s really talking when our minds start spiralling.
Drop into the body and begin to listen.
Somatic signals, nervous system patterns, and where we store emotion.
We explore what it means to “feel safe” and why we often don’t.
Meet the versions of you who’ve kept you safe.
This week is about meeting your inner protectors - the pleaser, the avoider, the overachiever — and beginning to understand their origin stories.
Learn to recognise, hold, and honour your limits.
We explore boundary ruptures, people-pleasing, and the grief of starting to say no.
Women often don’t know what’s “too much” until it’s already happened - this week helps change that.
How the past is quietly shaping the present.
We’ll explore attachment patterns, family dynamics, and the narratives we’ve inherited. Not to rehash trauma - but to understand the unhelpful things we’ve normalised.
Trying on new responses, gently and safely.
This week is about experimenting.
Can I pause before reacting? Can I offer myself care instead of criticism? Can I ask for what I need?
Tending to endings and transitions.
We’ll close with ritual, reflection, and a look at how to keep this work alive.
You’ll leave with your emotional support kit, your self-created toolbox, and a clearer sense of where to from here.
Program fee is $400 for the full 8 weeks. This includes:
The 2 hour session each week
Access to a private Facebook group
A printed workbook each week
The resources to create your self-care toolbox (including the box :) )
Refreshments
Access to me between sessions if anything comes up you want to talk about.
To book your spot, it's a simple process of just using my Pay ID huntervalleywalkandtalk@gmail.com or you can message me and I'll send through my dd details - Make payment within 24 hours of my reply to reserve your spot.
Please include your full name and use THRESHOLD for the reference.
----I am using bank transfer instead of a ticketing system as the fees are going to be very high, an that cost usually gets passed on to participants - this way, though not quite as convenient, saves you at leas, $10 - if not more----
Once you've paid please email me at:
hello@huntervalleywalkandtalktherapy.com.au
to let me know, and whether you will be attending the Monday day or the Thursday night session and so that I have your email address - as this is how you'll receive group updates, the address and digital copies of the workbooks. I will reply with a receipt.
If you would prefer to pay weekly, that is fine, however please note the first two weeks will need to be paid upfront and every week will need to be paid for, even if you can't make it.
This version of The Threshold will be held in person, at a location in Morpeth.
We'll spend 2 hours together on Mondays 12-2 and Thursday nights 7-9pm.
Dates for Thursday Night Group
September 18 and 25
October 16, 30
November 6, 13, 20, 27
Dates for Monday Group:
September 15, 22
October 13, 20, 27
November 3, 10, 17
You will be welcome to attend either group, if you can't make it to your regular group one week.
You'll need:
Pen
Journal (something to write in)
Pencils
Blank paper
Please avoid alcohol before and during group time.
It's easy to lose momentum throughout the week, when we are all fired up to do something new, so a Facebook group is available for those who wish to participate there.
There will be additional content provided to further support you on this journey.
It's a private group, and only members of the program will be active in it.
The group will be opened to participants 2 weeks prior to the course beginning, where there will be some lead-up discussions and resources shared.
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