Zena Chahine

Zena is a psychotherapist who takes a holistic view on mental health. She is known for her integrative approach that blends somatic therapy, family systems work, and Jungian depth psychology. With over seven years of experience supporting individuals, families, and community groups, Zena brings both clinical skill and lived wisdom into her work.

Specialities: Complex PTSD, Trauma, Behaviour Therapy for Children

Offerings:

Support for parents: Working with both mothers & fathers who carry the weight of generational trauma and are witnessing the effects of this trickle into the family system. Zena helps reconnect you to your body and nervous system to be able to parent from a grounded place.
Support for children: Zena worked as a behaviour therapists for years noticing the lack of holistic underpins behind "disruptive" behaviour, she takes a focus on helping children develop tools for managing their emotions so they feel safe in their expression. Zena helps with reducing meltdowns, anxiety and stress at home/school.
Trauma & Complex PTSD: Zena specialises in working with Complex PTSD and trauma, supporting adults in moving beyond survival patterns and into a deeper sense of wholeness and empowerment.
Psychedelic Integration: Australia legalised psychedelic- assisted therapy in 2023, Zena received her certification the following year and has found her place in integrating altered states of consciousness with a Jungian psychology approach.

Zena believes true healing happens when we combine nervous system science with human connection, respect, and a touch of the sacred. If you’re craving a more honest, embodied, non-clinical approach to healing you're probably in the right place!

Link to reach out and book a connection call: https://calendly.com/admin-eqmindset/theinnerguide

Website: https://www.eqmindset.com.au

I was drawn to the concept of recreating the village our nervous system yearns for with a holistic view of support. It speaks volumes to the future of safe places that empower the family system to nurture the many sides of health and wellbeing. As a solo private practice owner for the past few years I yearned for a community of practitioners to connect to and feel like I found this space just in the right time!
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change" by Carl Rogers, this is a deep outlook I have as a therapist who seeks to empower all my clients deep into a journey of self acceptance to remember the innate power within to heal and to grow. Change is a deeply personal process and no "mindset hacks" can beat self acceptance.
My mission is to bring the soul back to psychology and assure we take a holistic approach when looking at mental health, this also includes looking at the world of the body aka Somatic Psychotherapy which I include in my work with clients. At the core, what I love most is witnessing resilience and post-traumatic growth. I believe every person, no matter their story, carries the capacity to transform their pain into something meaningful. And my role as a therapist is to walk alongside until you can see and feel that truth.
You will not return to the same identity before motherhood and that is okay. The term "Matrescence" is vital to understand as you enter motherhood, you not only have transitioned a child into this world through your womb but you have also undergone a transformation of your identity. Matrescence is a holistic developmental process that accounts for your profound physical, emotional, hormonal, psychological, social, and existential changes and transformations that occur as you transitions into motherhood, reconnecting with the wisdom of your body is essential as you connect with this new identity you are forming.
At the age of 16 I left a physically abusive household and became homeless for a year, in that time I witnessed the faults of the current mental health system and something ignited in me to be the change in the system I needed, doing my own deep healing allowed me to practice as a therapist with integrity . After working in the Justice Department it was clear that I did not wish to work within the allopathic model and transitioned my 5 years of psychology studies into psychotherapy. The holistic deep approach psychotherapy takes sits well with my values and allows me to practice with integrity whilst having a voice in the world of therapy for a new paradigm approach to healing.