Inspiring growth, healing and lasting wellbeing 

Creative Arts Therapy and inner work for navigating life’s challenges

Sometimes we need compassionate support to navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, low self-esteem, health challenges, chronic pain, fatigue, or emotional and spiritual struggles.

Through creative and expressive processes—such as art, movement, writing, sculpting, sandplay therapy, nature-based work, and symbol exploration—alongside somatic and presence-based practices, I support you in exploring and processing your inner experiences, deepening insight, and moving toward meaningful transformation.

Reconnecting to Life is a process, a journey, that aims to strengthen your emotional, mental, physical, energetic, ancestral and spiritual well-being, providing insights into the challenges you are going through while restoring a sense of safety, peace, awe, and aliveness.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF...

THIS IS FOR YOU IF...

  • You are moving through an emotional, physical, mental or spiritual struggle or living with a chronic condition or persistent symptoms like anxiety, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, endometriosis, depression, chronic stress, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome…

  • You are ready to participate in the wisdom and the process of healing and transformation that longs to unfold from within you

  • You are open to exploring holistic, intuitive, groundbreaking processes that blend creative arts therapy, Indigenous wisdom, mindfulness and somatic and imaginal practices. These processes are informed by the effects of individual, collective, and ancestral trauma.

I am an enthusiastic student of Life and the soul’s journey. Originally from Mexico, I made New Zealand my home for 16 years. I recently moved to the Yarra Valley in Melbourne, Australia.

I've been on my own journey with conditions like endometriosis and fibromyalgia. After facing limited treatment options and feeling intense frustration at being unable to work and function properly, I made a heartfelt intention: To trust my body, listen to Life and explore the depth and layers of healing.

This made me reconnect with my body, nature, ancestral wisdom, intuition, and creativity. What started as a wish to feel better, heal, and return to my ‘normal life’ turned into a profoundly transformative path, where confusion, sadness, anger, chronic pain, and exhaustion shifted into clarity, peace, presence, and gratitude for Life.  I understood that healing goes far beyond the ‘removal’ or improvement of symptoms.

I am a registered Creative Arts Therapist (ANZACATA) and an Inner-Work facilitator with 15 years of experience as a facilitator, educator, and Nutritionist. Through my work, I support people in their journeys of reconnection, self-love, transformation and healing.

In my path, I’ve been fortunate to learn from inspiring teachers and wisdom traditions. You can read more about my training and studies here.

Hi, I’m Norma Hernandez

When we work together....

When we work together....

You’ll be safely and compassionately guided to tap into your own innate wisdom. Together, we’ll explore new possibilities and perspectives in your life, helping you find your way to healing and wholeness.

You’ll rekindle your curiosity, creativity, inspiration, and playfulness—because yes!, you can embrace these qualities even while facing difficult challenges.

You’ll learn to reconnect with your precious, unique self. You’ll rediscover your connection to nature, your breath, the present moment, the imaginal realm and the intelligence of life.

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You’ll befriend and learn to understand how your nervous system works with chronic conditions and trauma. You will engage in practices to help you integrate unprocessed personal, ancestral, or collective wounds and patterns that once served to protect you.

In a session, you engage with what Life is presenting to you. It’s not a fixed-session curriculum. It is a dynamic process that helps you understand the landscape of your autonomic nervous system and your emotional, mental, ancestral and collective fields through holistic, creative, intuitive, somatic and presence practices.

In this process, you reconnect with the force of Life and rediscover your unique and precious self.

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Kind words

  • “Through a beautiful combination of methods, Norma reminded me that I have value, I am not ‘broken’, I can love life with all its joy and sorrow and I can cope with everything.”

    -KL

  • “Norma’s warmth, compassion, observant insight and joyfulness as well as her deep commitment to inquiry evoke an openness and response in others that begins to enable transformation.”

    -VDL

  • “Norma’s way of holding the space was just wonderful. She was there for me 100%. I felt cared for, respected and listened to. Her way of pinpointing the, lets say “problem areas” was not far from amazing”

    -VL

  • “I asked Norma to help me with old painful suffering I’d not been able to let go of. I relaxed completely with Norma in her kind, wise insightful presence and trusted the process.  I found her to have an intuitive grasp of where to go and what was needed and was profoundly grateful to feel years of old recriminations fall away and ease take its place”

    -KG

  • “There is a paradox here; what Norma has helped me come to was there in me all along, (as it is in us all)  but strive as I did, I couldn’t reach it. And that is Norma’s skill, for which I will be grateful always.”

    - KL

  • “I had never witnessed/experienced the dismantling of a thought so quickly – she did it so easily – her compassion and empathy were the essential factors that allowed me to see with clarity and gave me the ability to continue forwards in my life”

    -AP

  • “Norma’s warmth, openness, authenticity and vibrant sense of humour contribute to her exceptional ability to create a safe space.”

    - KW

Online and in-person sessions

In Yarra Valley, Vic, Australia

Individual sessions

(60 minutes each)

I offer sliding scale fees so that financial concerns don’t stand in the way.

Contact me for more information.

6-month Group online Sessions

FROM MARCH 2026

Book your space

Ten small group sessions over six months

90 minutes each group session.

Between 2 and 4 people in a group.

Working in a group is insightful & powerfully healing

AU/NZ$600

Can be paid in 3 monthly instalments

Do you need more information? Let's connect!

* If it’s your deep desire to start your journey of reconnection and you are struggling financially, please get in touch with me, and together we can find a way to make it happen.

Take the next step.

Fill out this quick form, and I’ll be in touch within 36 business hours.

You can also email me to: norma(at)reconnectingtolife(dot)com