Wellness in Fremantle & South

A community psychology practice in Applecross whose sleep therapy stream runs on cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia: in-depth assessment to untangle sleep from everything else, then structured CBT-I work — sleep restriction, light-exposure strategies, worksheets — across anywhere from two to twenty sessions, finishing with relapse-prevention planning.

An East Fremantle salon weighted towards skin — advanced facials and peels — with lash, brow and waxing work alongside.

A functional medicine clinic in Palmyra whose health coaching sits alongside its practitioner consultations: the coach's part is behaviour change and helping people actually carry out the protocol they have been given. Coaches are certified through the Kresser Institute. Appointments are available in the Palmyra rooms or by telehealth nationally, and the group runs telehealth-only clinics in several other capitals.

Euphemia teaches small-group workshops from Hamilton Hill: Reiki levels one to three ($200–$390), a six-week Awaken & Raise Your Vibration course ($320), a reiki and chakra balancing weekend ($350) and a $30 pendulum workshop, with online meditation and journaling at $10 a week. Healing sessions include sound meditation, clairvoyant readings and aura drawings.

Elisabeth Eitelberger practises as both a psychodynamic psychotherapist and a creative arts therapist in Walyalup/Fremantle, with a Vienna philosophy and theatre background behind a Murdoch creative arts therapies masters. Clinically registered with PACFA and ANZACATA. Sixty-minute sessions at $190, with concession and block rates, in person or online. Adults and couples.

Neerja Ahuja's Applecross centre pairs classical Ayurvedic treatment — snehana herbal-oil massage, nasya, purvakarma and panchakarma programs — with diet and lifestyle sessions and yoga nidra. A long-established practice on the south side of the river with consultations and treatments booked separately.

Gay Riches' massage centre on South Terrace has more than twenty years behind it: remedial, relaxation, therapeutic, hot-stone and pregnancy massage, and couples experiences in a Bali-inspired garden room with a private outdoor double spa. The centre also runs a massage school and consultancy, and private health fund rebates apply to eligible treatments.

A family-run Jandakot studio pairing table work — remedial, relaxation, pregnancy, lymphatic drainage and chakra balancing massage — with a recovery wing of infrared wellness pods, body-roll and compression boots. Appointment only, massage from $115, booked through Fresha.

The Fremantle salon of a national waxing chain, on High Street. Body and facial waxing, brows, and the Brazilian work the name is built on.

Charley has taught for over two decades from shared studio spaces in Applecross, Bateman and Hilton, with a practice built deliberately for stiff mornings and old injuries rather than for people who already bend easily. Gentle therapeutic yoga, strength work, mindfulness and meditation, plus private yoga-therapy sessions, seniors classes and online options. Registered as a Yoga Therapist with both Yoga Australia and IAYT, and a Level 3 teacher.

Chen-style tai chi in the Zhu Tiancai lineage, taught through a ten-week beginner program aligned with WA school terms — posture, breathing, silk reeling and the 13 Postures routine — at Troy Park in Attadale on Saturday mornings, with a second venue in Safety Bay. Beginner classes run on donation; annual membership is $40.

Claire Belton runs breathwork and shamanic breathwork practitioner trainings from Fremantle — regular courses locally and around Australia — for those who want to move from receiving sessions to facilitating them.

Massage across remedial, relaxation, pregnancy, hot stone and lymphatic drainage, with reiki and reflexology on the same menu and float tanks in the building. Hour-long sessions run $129–$159, evenings included most nights, and a membership from $95 a month suits people who treat it as maintenance rather than a treat.

Theva Indrasenan has run conscious dance in Perth since 2010 — Open Floor trained, with sessions from $25 Friday-night dances to weekend intensives and dawn 'Morning Medicine' beach dances. Venues cluster around Fremantle: North Fremantle Community Hall, Hilton PCYC, Bibra Lake and South Beach. No steps to learn; the floor is the practice.

Guided meditation in the Karma Kagyu tradition three times a week at Bibra Lake — Monday and Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons — each session opening with a short talk before twenty to thirty minutes of guided practice in English. Free to attend, donations voluntary, no experience needed; cushions and chairs provided.

An Aveda lifestyle salon and day spa on High Street, Fremantle, running since 2010: four spa rooms, a relaxation lounge, two pedicure spas and twelve hair stations with massage chairs at the basins. Massage with aromatic oils, facials, waxing, tinting, spray tans and makeup sit beside low-tox hair colour and styling, all with Aveda's plant-derived products, and the salon runs RISE, a wellness program for people affected by cancer.

Jessica Ruescher, an accredited practising dietitian with more than fifteen years in practice, consults from Fremantle with a deliberately kind, non-judgemental style — evidence-based nutrition support across weight, gut health, diabetes and cholesterol.

A Canning Highway gym for people over 50 and nobody else, with classes capped at eight and led by physiotherapists. There is a six-week starting programme, one-to-one sessions, and physiotherapy in the same room.

Structural integration on High Street in Fremantle, worked as a twelve-series rather than one-off appointments, plus active fascial release and breath and gait assessment. The practitioner is a Board Certified Structural Integrator with the International Association of Structural Integration, trained in Anatomy Trains Structural Integration, and holds a Bachelor of Exercise and Health Science from UWA. An initial consultation is $150; sessions run $110 for 45 minutes to $170 for 90.

A Booragoon podiatry clinic running since 1981 with eight podiatrists on staff, including a podiatric surgeon. Orthotic therapy, nail surgery, shockwave and laser therapy, ultrasound-guided injections and sports work, weekdays 8am to 6pm with Saturdays by appointment.

A seven-day remedial clinic on Market Street covering deep tissue, sports and trigger-point work, pregnancy massage, cupping and lymphatic drainage. Prices are published plainly — thirty minutes from $70, an hour $130, concessions across the board — and HICAPS handles most health-fund rebates on the spot.

Running since 1987 with more than thirty speech pathologists, covering early language development, speech clarity, stuttering, literacy, feeding and mealtime management, plus school screening programs, holiday programs and telehealth. Therapy approaches include PROMPT, the Lidcombe Program, Sounds-Write and Hanen.

At Golden Hour, I believe the mother deserves to be cared for just as intentionally as the baby. As a Perth birth doula, I offer gentle, nurturing and non-judgemental support through pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum days, caring for families across Perth's southern suburbs. As a photographer, I capture the people, connection and little moments that make this season yours. Whether I'm beside you through birth or behind the camera, my hope is that you feel comfortable, cared for and completely yourself. Because while your baby matters deeply, so do you.

Paige McNaught works across an unusually wide set of materials — visual art, clay, sand play, photography, textiles, movement and music among them — from Fremantle and Perth, or online Australia-wide. A PACFA-registered counsellor and ANZACATA member with a psychotherapy degree behind the arts training. Individual sessions are published at $156.16 an hour, with NDIS creative counselling groups alongside.

Graeme Salvetti has facilitated breathwork for more than sixteen years and holds a degree in psychotherapy and counselling. Weekly group sessions run on Sunday afternoons in South Fremantle, online group journeys most Thursday evenings, and two-hour private sessions for individuals or couples by arrangement, alongside men's groups, embodiment coaching and bespoke sessions for organisations. Published prices: $80 for the Sunday group, $65 online, $180 private.

Mandi Kelly holds a Master Reiki qualification and an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, working from a private healing room on South Terrace. Sessions span reiki, reiki hot- and cold-stone massage, crystal and sound healing, hypnotherapy and past-life regression, with Reiki Level 1 and 2 training courses that took a Fremantle Chamber of Commerce award in 2023.

Christie's home clinic in Booragoon mixes energetic kinesiology, Holy Fire and Karuna reiki, sound healing and ceremonial cacao, with monthly group healing sessions for up to ten. Open Tuesday to Thursday and Saturdays by appointment, with evening slots on request, plus reiki and Access Bars training through the year.

A Bikram studio south of the river, running the original set sequence in a heated room. The studio makes a point of the practice being for people who do not think of themselves as yoga people — its own words are that you do not need to be fit, or young, or a devotee — and first-timers are given mat and towel hire at no cost. An introductory pass covers twenty-five days of unlimited classes.

A Fremantle ceramics studio running small-group wheel-throwing and hand-building workshops and beginner courses, plus memberships for independent potters.

A boutique hyperbaric oxygen clinic in the Kardinya Commercial Centre running two hard monoplace chambers, with staff certified by the International Hyperbarics Association and continuous monitoring through every session. A first session is $60, and free parking sits at the front door.

Jude Casey is a registered specialised kinesiologist working from North Fremantle, with a practice built entirely around muscle-monitoring balances across emotional, structural, nutritional and energetic streams. Booking runs online around the clock through Cliniko.

A not-for-profit centre teaching modern Buddhist meditation, with its home in East Fremantle and weekly drop-in classes across the metro — Joondalup, Kingsley, Bayswater, Baldivis and free lunchtime sessions at the WA Museum. Drop-ins are $15, need no booking, and assume no background whatsoever.

Margaret practises kinesiology from Attadale, south of the river, with in-person balances at the Stoneham Road rooms and online sessions for those who can't get there. Appointments book directly through her online diary.

A shamanic practice in Hilton working with soul retrieval, ancestral and past-life clearing, and light language, in person or remotely over Zoom. Prices are stated plainly: $200 for a ninety-minute initial session and $160 for seventy-five-minute follow-ups. Workshops in light language run through the year.

A dedicated Ayurvedic centre in a Fremantle cottage offering consultations, abhyanga oil massage, panchakarma programs and rasayana therapy in the classical Kerala tradition, guided by senior advisor Dr L. Mahadevan. There are yoga classes, a herbal dispensary, courses and a supervised student clinic. Open Monday to Saturday.

A day spa on Gilbertson Road in Kardinya with a long treatment list and its prices published in full. Aromatherapy massage runs 50 or 80 minutes, with couples rooms at both lengths, alongside Swedish, deep tissue, hot stone and Indian head massage, lymphatic drainage, facials and an infrared sauna. Open six days, from 9am on weekdays and 8.30am on Saturdays.

Lyndal runs a monthly women's circle on the last Saturday of the month, 7–9pm, at the Fremantle Yoga Centre space on Petra Street. Evenings move through grounding meditation with sound, yin yoga, a cacao ritual and guided sharing by candlelight, with themes following the seasons and moon phases.

Jo's boutique salon on Collier Street, Applecross, by appointment Monday to Saturday with evenings available. Every facial starts with a consultation; the menu runs facials and peels, microdermabrasion, dermaplaning, LED and fractional skin needling, Indian head and signature massage, spa treatments and pedicures, brows, lashes, waxing, spray tans and makeup, with Skin Juice and Synergie Skin on the shelves. Prices are published, from $15 for a lip wax to $289 for fractional needling.

A North Fremantle studio whose timetable runs from power yoga and sculpt Pilates down to yin, restorative, and a yoga nidra class held inside live crystal-bowl sound healing — the guided yogic-sleep practice done properly, lying down, with the room resonating. Drop-ins $32, memberships from $39 a week.

A wholefood grocer with a café attached, in South Fremantle since 1988. Open from 8am on weekdays, with takeaway meals, wraps and smoothies alongside the shelves.

An organic day spa on George Street, East Fremantle, open since 2018. The menu is built around organic facials, massage — including pregnancy and couples massage — body treatments and spa packages, with brows, lashes, waxing and pedicures alongside. Open six days with late nights on Wednesday and Thursday; closed Sundays.

A free weekly community meditation held outdoors at Bathers Beach in Fremantle, meeting at the hut in front of the art centre on Mews Road. Sessions start at 6.30am each Saturday and follow three steps: a welcome circle, a 20-minute meditation combining mindfulness, breath and gratitude, then a closing circle. Trained volunteer facilitators lead each session. It is free, open to beginners and experienced meditators, has no religious affiliation and needs no registration.

Osteopathy with massage, acupuncture, naturopathy and traditional Chinese medicine under one Myaree roof — a deliberately unhurried, whole-person practice that books longer appointments Monday to Saturday.

A personal training practice running since 2014 with studios in Myaree and Wangara, predominantly training women. Coaching takes a health-first line — strength sessions built alongside nutrition and daily-habit work rather than programs sold on before-and-after photos.

A courtyard café in a West End warehouse doing wholefood breakfasts and lunches daily until 3pm, with vegan and gluten-free options run as standard rather than as an afterthought.

Physiotherapy and exercise rehabilitation across Booragoon, Beeliar and East Fremantle, led by Daniel Ryan with a Masters of Physiotherapy from the University of South Australia. Remedial massage runs alongside, and initial consults include complimentary VALD strength testing — objective numbers rather than a guess at where you are. Open from 6:30am and Saturday mornings.

A large George Street clinic with seven naturopaths plus an Ayurvedic practitioner, nutritionist, kinesiologist, chiropractor and nurse practitioner under one roof, with in-house testing. Prices are stated plainly — initial naturopathic consultations from $209, follow-ups from $139, and a free fifteen-minute discovery call to start. Open weeknights to 7pm twice a week.

A small studio within the Sanctuary Wellness Collective on Wood Street, Fremantle, founded by Amy and run as a collective of women practitioners. The published programme includes a fortnightly Monday meditation and sound bath from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, a weekly Thursday evening stretch class, and monthly sound bath and yoga events. Practitioners also offer one-on-one sessions in reiki, breathwork, yoga therapy, kinesiology and remedial massage, by appointment.

A home salon on the corner of Pier and Penshurst in East Fremantle, covering facials, waxing, massage and nails without the shopfront overheads.

Paula Flinn holds conscious connected breathwork in a small Fremantle studio, deliberately kept intimate — group sessions cap at six people, on the first Friday evening of each month, alongside private one-to-one work.

A dedicated meditation centre in Bicton running live guided classes morning to evening six days a week, in person and online, built around a simple seven-step method pitched at every age and experience level. Kids' classes run Tuesday evenings, membership includes unlimited daily classes, and a free one-on-one consultation starts things off.

Kristina Ritchie pairs Reiki I and II certification with diplomas in remedial massage, remedial therapies, herbal medicine, naturopathy and mind/body psychotherapy. Her Fremantle practice offers reiki at $120 an hour ($170 for ninety minutes), intuitive counselling and coaching from $120, and remote sessions by Zoom or phone.

Two studios south of the river — Entrance Road in Coogee and Hammond Road in Cockburn Central — with the broadest Pilates timetable in the area: barre, clinical, reformer, mat, trampoline reformer, pregnancy and post-natal classes, plus TRX and boxilates. Classes run mornings, evenings and weekends. A two-week beginners' trial is $59, and a fifteen-minute phone consult is free.

A North Fremantle ceramics studio and shop running small group wheel lessons and hand-building sessions for groups.

Flat, clear water and noticeably fewer people than the beaches north of it, with the working harbour in view down the coast. The southern end is the quiet end.

A Fremantle-based men's collective that meets outdoors rather than in a room: monthly trail hikes in John Forrest National Park and Ellis Brook Valley, beach meetups at Trigg, walks around Lake Monger, and a Brazilian jiu jitsu session they call Warrior Flow. Most events are free, with occasional charity runs taking donations. Joining happens through their WhatsApp group.

Three accredited exercise physiologists — Thomas Le Huray, James Walker and Sharis Cooper — running a split assessment-and-prescription model from Bull Creek, with NDIS, workers compensation, DVA and GP chronic-condition plans supported. Group offerings include Strength for Life for older adults and the Girls Get Strong small-group program.

A small private studio at Cockburn Central built around floating: a float tank, an infrared sauna, and a Cocoon wellness pod that combines infrared heat with a massage bed. Fire and ice sessions pair the sauna with cold, and massage is booked separately. Everything runs as a private booking rather than a shared space, which suits people who would rather not share a recovery room.

A skin boutique on South Terrace offering peels, skin needling and LED light therapy. Late on Thursdays, shorter hours Friday and Saturday, closed Mondays.

A sauna and ice bath on Worthington Road, booked for exclusive use — you get the facility to yourself for the session rather than sharing it. Hot and cold are taken in contrast or on their own, and groups can book together. Open from 7am on weekdays, earlier finish on Fridays, and closed Sundays.

Sharon King has practised reflexology and Bowen therapy for eighteen years, splitting her week between George Street in Fremantle (Fridays and Saturdays) and Morley (Tuesdays and Wednesdays). Alongside foot and hand reflexology and Swedish massage she offers Reflexology Lymph Drainage — the RLD technique developed in UK cancer-care settings — as a gentle lymphatic option. Member of the Reflexology Association of Australia and the Bowen Therapy Federation.

Jai Ram teaches pregnancy and postnatal yoga on South Street and very little else — a studio built around one stretch of life rather than a timetable that happens to include a prenatal slot. Courses run in ten-week cycles following school terms, with a six-week intensive inside them, and Mama Baba classes carry on afterwards with the baby in the room.

A private music therapy practice working out of Victoria Hall on Fremantle's High Street, building personalised music therapy programs around each client rather than a set curriculum, with NDIS participants supported.

Somatic breathwork out of Fremantle in every format the practice comes in — group circles, private sessions, workshops and retreats — with the somatic emphasis on letting the body lead rather than the technique.

Fremantle's Spanda School runs structured silent retreats built on non-dual meditation, gentle movement and rest — one-day sittings at the school itself, and three- and seven-day residentials at Donnelly Lakes near Pemberton. Two formats serve different depths of practice: a guided version for those newer to silence, and longer unguided sits for experienced meditators. Around a hundred students come through each year, some from interstate and overseas.

An Applecross studio specialising in assisted fascial stretching — a practitioner moves you through supported stretches, blended with massage and soft-tissue techniques, in one-on-one sessions rather than classes.

Hard-shell hyperbaric chambers on Ardross Street, running 60 to 90 minute sessions between 1.3 and 2.0 atmospheres, with red light therapy alongside.

Kimberley Zhang's Leeming clinic, running since 2012 with an unusual house rule: every practitioner must have at least ten years' clinical experience beyond their degree and registration. Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, tui-na meridian massage, cupping and combination acupuncture-remedial sessions, with telehealth consults and HICAPS rebates.

Renato, a Usui Reiki Master and crystal energy healing practitioner, runs sessions from his Bull Creek rooms combining reiki with crystal and light work. Initial consultations run up to ninety minutes, follow-ups an hour, and clients stay fully clothed throughout. Crystal light beds are also available to rent or buy. Open Thursday to Saturday.

Four sites between the South Terrace studio and the beaches at South Beach, Leighton and Hillarys Boat Harbour, and the format changes with the location. The studio runs private infrared rooms at thirty minutes and a private magnesium bath and sauna at sixty; the beachside rooms are communal, including a silent session where nobody talks. A bath house experience and massage run alongside. Booking is online.

A long-running certified organic produce business with a retail shop in Hamilton Hill, where you can hand-pick seasonal fruit and veg and groceries, alongside organic box subscriptions and an online shop delivering across Perth.

Monthly two-hour conscious connected breathwork in a warm room at Spanda Yoga, capped at ten people. Sessions pair the guided breathing with plain-science education and a follow-up email the next day, which is more aftercare than most group breathwork offers. Mats, bolsters and blankets provided.

A multidisciplinary group running clinics at Bicton, Burswood, Canning Vale and Murdoch, with physiotherapy, exercise physiology, chiropractic, podiatry, dietetics, occupational therapy and remedial massage under one banner — plus a dedicated clinical Pilates studio at Bicton and home-care services for those who can't travel.

Fremantle's arts centre runs term-based adult courses in ceramics, drawing, painting and more, including an open wheelwork and hand-building studio.

A small ceramics studio in Fremantle's West End running hand-building workshops where you make a single functional piece, such as a mug, bowl or vase.

A full spectrum of yoga offerings all designed to strengthen and open your body, calm your mind and restore balance. It's the perfect practice for navigating the fast pace of modern life. The Lab is a large space in the heart of Freo with a minimalist design, offering plenty of room even in busier classes. We run regular workshops, retreats and teacher trainings.

Fremantle's yoga and Ayurveda house, running since 2008: daily classes from gentle to dynamic, Friday-evening yoga nidra and deep-restore sessions, and an Ayurvedic clinic alongside — consultations, massage and steambox treatments. Six-week beginner courses from $126 prepaid; even Bollywood dance gets a slot in the week.

A lay Zen community in the Diamond Sangha lineage, sitting zazen every Thursday evening at the Beaconsfield church hall since its founding in 1982 — newcomers arrive at six for orientation. Teachers Mari Rhydwen Roshi and Glenn Wallis Roshi guide the practice, with monthly sits on country, quarterly intensive sitting days and an annual multi-day sesshin. Runs on dana; mats and chairs provided.