I talk about this work every day. I help people unwind the patterns that keep them undercharging, over-giving, and discounting their worth before anyone even asks them to. So when it came time to raise my own rates, I had a choice, do it quietly, or walk the talk. This is me walking it.
I have been living with eight generations of effort unreceived from my paternal heritage line. Shifting that has created space, space to charge what the work is actually worth, space to stop discounting before anyone even asks me to, space to walk the talk I speak every single day.
From 1 July 2026, my session rates are changing. I have invested thousands of dollars into my clinical studies, advanced specialty trainings in brain-body work, and endured the cost of my own lived experience. That last part doesn’t show up on a certificate, but it is woven into every session I hold.
I’ve done this quietly before. This time I didn’t want to.
My work sits at the intersection of clinical trauma therapy, nervous system regulation, and the money patterns most of us inherited before we were old enough to question them. It draws on 15 years as a hairdresser, accidental counsellor, 20 years in community services, a Masters in Social Work and Bachelor of Behavioural Science, clinical certifications in Root Cause Therapy and the Trauma of Money? Method, extensive training in EMDR and Brainspotting, and my own lived experience of the exact patterns I help others unwind.
The new rates reflect that. Not because the work has changed, but because I have stopped discounting it.
The updated rates are already live on my booking platform. If you’ve been sitting with the idea of working together and would like to step in at the pre-July price, reach out before 1 July 2026, let me know you’ve read this, and I’ll honour the previous rate for you.
I’d love to work with you.
Sonia Skewes, Integrative Money Trauma Therapist and trauma-responsive practitioner based in Penguin, Tasmania.
- About Sonia
- More Space to Pause
Sonia?is an?Integrative Money Trauma Therapist, Accredited Social Worker (AASW), Founder of the N.E.R.V.E. Method? and Author of Who Ever Said? “It’s Just Money, Honey?”, ?whose work sits at the intersection of money, trauma, and the nervous system. Supporting capable, caring professionals who are stuck in financial stress despite everything they know and everything they’ve tried. With a Master of Social Work, a Bachelor of Behavioural Science, Certified Practitioner in the Trauma of Money Method?, and advanced clinical training in Relational Integrative EMDR, Brainspotting, Root Cause Therapy, and Resource Therapy, her approach is shaped not only by professional formation but by her own lived experience of inherited money patterns. She works with healthcare professionals, therapists, and practitioners globally who are ready to do this work at a nervous system level, and in-person in Penguin, Tasmania ~ Australia a destination therapy location on the northwest coast where the pace of the place holds the work.
If this resonates, a good place to begin is the reflective guide?Money, Safety & the Body: The Missing Link ?, or explore working together at soniaskewes.com.au/reach-out/