my rates
admin/herbal production 50/hr
I bring more than your average secretary :)
writing/editing/content/socials/photo/video 100/hr
Any service whereby I use my gear + have payed out big dollars on equipment + on professional training - cameras, lenses, programs, computers.
mental health/ carer work /NDIS support work/public health 100/hr
counselling/astrology/spiritual guidance 333 session
Any service where I’ve spent big dollars on training/mastering. Also in my experience, compliancy of daily practice increases relative to how much paid for the service, its for your own good. I work best with people who deeply desire transformation+sustainable change who are committed to dancing with their shadow+taking responsibility for the yummy life they wish to create. I would never ask a client to commit to a practice that I haven’t done.
sexuality/relationship polarity counselling 500/hr
My life’s work. Twenty years of research, study, classes, + lived experience of many, many, many relationships, love affairs. Daily devotional practices to transmute, transform how these themes in my own life.
WHAT ARE YOU PAYING FOR?
♀Twenty years experience astrology/counselling
♀Twenty years experience as a storyteller - published writer/photographer/filmmaker. Both international + in Australia.
♀Twenty years experience in social work - homelessness, domestic violence, indigenous communities, perinatal attachment, children with failure to thrive, complex trauma, youth/juvenile offenders
♀ Twenty years experience running my own business in addition to being a sole trader, also owned+ran a cafe.
♀ A decade running women’s groups +somatic experiences
♀in addition to a plethora of professional training+study, my own lived experience as a trauma survivor, mother, creative +devotional woman.
WHAT DO I GUARENTEE?
♀you won’t be the same after our work together.
♀reaching your goals +digger deeper to connect with more desires.
♀that you’ll rave to my friends about me! Please continue to do this, word of mouth is my largest advertising.
♀insights you may not have expected
♀clarity into your situation
♀an abundance of tools to support your transformation
♀ongoing longterm support - the folk who work (some have been ten years!) over time experience the greatest results.
I get great personal +professional satisfaction with sustainable outcomes.
♀a plan for what to be with next
WHY AM I PAYING THESE RATES?
♀You get what you pay for! I know what I bring.
♀extensive lived experience - cross-cultural, bilingual, international, trauma-informed, authentic, deep, competent.
♀multi-overlapping skills; When you book me for my admin, it’s also the counsellor turning up with excellent communication skills, when you book the astrologer you also get exceptional admin, when you book me for herbal production, you’re also getting full naturopath knowledge. When you book the doco maker, you also get the counsellor. When you book the videographer, you also get the fashion stylist.
♀I’m a single parent +sole breadwinner. I have a lot of financial responsibility +time restraints WHICH gifts me skills in time efficiency, super productivity+decades experience juggling a million tasks at once, I don’t crack under pressure.
♀when you pay me for my skills, you are paying three-fold, in support of my entire family.
♀you are welcome to pay someone else a cheaper rate, no offence taken if you do! this is simply the minimum rates I require for these services.
WHY DO I DO THIS WORK?
♀deep desire for divine harmony in the universe
♀have survived a lot of hard things on my own + wish to pay this forward for anyone struggling with the same issues/story
♀ part of it is trauma related - supporting/caretaking/witnessing others is a gift I needed to develop since birth in order to survive. I am very good at it, still 40 years on.
♀i adore stories, they’ve given me a lot in my life +wish to give back to story
♀ I am my most joyful when I am creating, I adore sharing my creative skills
♀to make money to support my family to thrive
♀to break intergenerational trauma
♀ to bring light to the hidden for social change
HOW TO WORK WITH ME?
All session bookings are via my website contact page.
For creative projects, best to drop me a line HERE with the brief of your job to see if it interests me. I offer free 15 minute yarns to see if we are a suitable match to work together +understand how I can best support you. by the end of the call, I will offer you a plan of attack.
WHEN TO WORK WITH ME?
Although I am excellent in a crisis, most folk call me at these times - from prison/hospital/court/divorce/ bed. Don’t wait til then!
♀ seasonally - once a month at the start of the new astro season to capitalise or align with the most potent energies. Most sustainable results this way
♀during times of transition - maiden to mother, married to single, when a loved one passes
♀during times of expansion - so we can maximise the energies
♀ when you’ve outgrown a situation, practice + want to step into next organic growth step
♀ when you’re tired of a repeating pattern
♀ when struggling with
♀when feeling lost+ need clarity
♀when it feels like the cosmos hate you - you keep getting knocked down. Its so helpful to check out the celestial timings +gain END DATES
♀after a breakup to integrate the learnings
♀before entering dating/during celibacy/sexual pauses periods to maximise healing
♀when you meet someone new, hello old patterns! Lets work with you this time!
♀during the overwhelming thickness of complex trauma
♀when you’re finding it hard to be compassionate with self/others +have lost faith in life
♀when feeling curious, or want to invite in more fun+mystery into your life
♀when you realise you are serious about living your greatnesss
♀when you need skilled insight into your soul path
♀when you desire to deepen into your feminine essence+sacred sexuality/sensuality
♀when your in need of clarity
♀ when you desire a person of depth+authenticity to be with you on any part of your journey - be it deep grief, confusion, ecstatic joy
due to current circumstances, I am unable to offer sliding scale, discounts or exchanges/trade so its best not to ask! I will always let clients know if/when this changes.
THE PAPER-TRAIL (the short version)
Carly Lorente is the creator of herstory_collective, an archetypal counsellor astrologer, writer + filmmaker, passionate about reconciling the maternal and the erotic of women with nature, on screen. Through a mixed narrative of words and images, both moving and still; she explores themes of culture, ecology, mothering, and sexuality.
2003 bachelor of health science - ND (naturopathy) UNE
2003 Adv. Dip. Naturopathy Nature Care College
2003 Cert. Nutrition Nature Care College
2003 Holistic Counsellor Cert. Nature Care College
2003 Remedial Massage Cert. Nature Care College
2003 Medical Astrology Cert. Nature Care College
2001 Commenced work at a health food store providing mini consults + eventually opened own clinic space on Sydney’s Northern Beaches until 2009.
2005 B+W photography, photojournalism Australian Centre Photography
2007 Features Writing, Crime Writing, Memoir Writing Australian Writer’s Centre
Began freelancing as a features writing/documentary photographer published in MindFood, Green, The Sunday Telegraph, Le Figaro, SummerWinter
2005—2008 fashion assistant+stylist photographer’s assistant AUS + Paris, London, NYC.
Editorial +advertising for Sass & Bide, Lee Mathews, Saatchi & Saatchi, David Jones
2005 The Artist’s Way study group
2005 The Power of Now study group
Learnt fluent French.
2006 - 2007 Editorial Assistant Express Publications Caravan +Motorhome, 4X4 magazines
2006- 2009 Indigenous lore/ceremony with Yuin Uncle Max Harrison
2006 - 2009 Indigenous lore/ceremony with Wiradjuri elder Minmia
2009-2011 Nutritionist/Social Worker at NPY women’s council Alice Springs with frequent travel/living in remote communities on the APY lands. Working with kids with failure to thrive, complex trauma+early intervention to reduce child removal. Indigenous lore/ceremony with Pitjantjatjara women.
Began personal research obsession into neuroscience of trauma + epigenetics of trauma rehabilitation. Undertook extensive professional training in culture, cultural appropriation, domestic violence, and complex trauma case management.
Learnt Pitjantjatjara.
2011 Health Promotion HIV awareness/ sexual health project for an NGO in Suva, Fiji
Learnt Fijian.
2011 Nutrition Health Officer for Indigenous mothers +children attachment/parenting in Casino NSW with complex trauma/children at risk of removal.
2011-2014 became a mother to two children. Owned a cafe+ ran the creative events ,as well as freelance writing.
2013 wrote/shot, edited +produced a short doco film on sex workers.
2014 Screenwriting + intro to Directing AFTRS
2014 Got divorced. Began deep dive into sexuality +relationship training. Some of:
Dancing Eros
Embodied Awakening Tantra Academy.
Couples Embodied Intimacy with Lorella Ricci
Becoming the one with Sheila
Self-partnering with Cervix Awakening
Me after we with Ginger Dean
John Wineland immersions + one year training
David Deida Dear Lover
Leyolah Antara Kundalini Dance
Shiva Shakti Dance
Cinema + Psyche Pacifica Institute USA
Mysticism with Mirabai starr
Dreamwork with TokoPa Turner
Jungian Psychoanalysis + dreamwork sessions. Weekly since 2015.
2015 created herstory_collective, a place to hang all my hats! Began practicing astrology sessions again+running online + in person moon circles, pleasure circles, ritual + online classes through my astrology/mythology school. Ran all the social media, marketing registrations.
2019 community creative projects in Byron Bay - wrote a tarot deck for young women + worked as a writing mentor to teens, contributed to a book on homelessness.
2020 wrote, directed+ produced first narrative short film, Hiraeth.
2021 various Screenworks initiatives supporting my feature film script Wild Mother.
2022 Project manager building Camp Cunt - our own tiny home.
2022 Documentary stills +2nd camera on female homelessness+ child removal
Since 2008 I have immersed myself in pilgrimages to sacred sites all around the world. Included but not limited to -
Dreaming tracks/indigenous lore of NPY lands, Top End AUS, Noongyar Australia.
Ley lines/ Rose line, Mary magdelene, black madonnas of Cathar country in South West France
Virgin de Guadeloupe Mexico
Psilocybin grandmother julietta in Mexico
Council of 13 indig. Grandmothers NYC
Sared Valley Peru
AWARDS
2021 Recipient of Australians in Screen Forum 's Write from Home
2020 Winner of Screenworks Creative Factual Mentorship
2018 Winner of Northern Rivers Screenworks TV Writer's Intensive.
2015 Winner of Northern Rivers Screenworks 'In the Writer's Room,' for short film script Mother.
2013 Winner Editia Books prize for long-form narrative journalism for Minyma: A Snapshot Into the Life of Women in Central Australia, ACT.
TRAINING
HEALTH/SPIRIT
2003 bachelor of health science - ND (naturopathy) UNE
2003 Adv. Dip. Naturopathy Nature Care College
2003 Cert. Nutrition Nature Care College
2003 Holistic Counsellor Cert. Nature Care College
2003 Remedial Massage Cert. Nature Care College
2003 Medical Astrology Cert. Nature Care College
2005 The Artist’s Way study group
2005 The Power of Now study group
2006- 2009 Indigenous lore/ceremony with Yuin Uncle Max Harrison
2006 - 2009 Indigenous lore/ceremony with Wiradjuri elder Minmia
2014 - 2022
Dancing Eros
Embodied Awakening Tantra Academy.
Couples Embodied Intimacy with Lorella Ricci
Becoming the one with Sheila
Self-partnering with Cervix Awakening
Me after we with Ginger Dean
John Wineland immersions + one year training
David Deida Dear Lover
Leyolah Antara Kundalini Dance
Shiva Shakti Dance
Cinema + Psyche Pacifica Institute USA
Mysticism with Mirabai starr
Dreamwork with TokoPa Turner
Jungian Psychoanalysis + dreamwork sessions. Weekly since 2015.
CREATIVE
2005 B+W photography
2005 Photojournalism Australian Centre Photography
2007 Features Writing, Crime Writing, Memoir Writing Australian Writer’s Centre
2014 Screenwriting AFTRS
2014 Intro to Directing AFTRS
2014 The Heroine’s Journey Thru Film AFTRS
WORK
2001 - 2009
Naturopath/ Health Food store mini consults + own private clinic space on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
2005—2008
Fashion Assistant+Stylist / Photographer’s Assistant AUS + Paris, London, NYC.
Editorial +advertising for Sass & Bide, Lee Mathews, Saatchi & Saatchi, David Jones
2006 - Current
Features writer /Documentary Photographer/Author
published in MindFood, Green, The Sunday Telegraph, Le Figaro, SummerWinter, Affirm Press