The TCMA Strategy Session
A comprehensive consultation with Dr Amy Chahal · Surry Hills, Sydney
An hour spent understanding your face, your skin and how you are ageing — and leaving with a roadmap for the next few years, in the right order.
$250 consultation fee · or call (02) 8074 1559
- 01A full hour with Dr Amy Chahal
- 023D imaging and facial analysis
- 03Your treatment and skincare roadmap, in writing
Ageing well is a sequence, not a shopping list
Most people arrive having been told what they could have done. Very few have been told what to do first, what to leave alone, and what will still matter in five years.
That is the difference between a treatment and a roadmap. A treatment addresses what you noticed this month. A roadmap accounts for how a face actually changes over time — where volume goes, how skin quality shifts, which things compound if you address them early, and which things genuinely can wait.
The Strategy Session exists to give you that sequence. It is a medical consultation, not a sales appointment, and you are under no obligation to proceed with anything at the end of it.
Which consultation do I need?
The Strategy Session
This page
- You want to understand the whole picture
- Face, skin and ageing overall
- 3D imaging and a written roadmap
- With Dr Amy Chahal
- $250 consultation fee
Focused Consultation
- You know what is bothering you
- One concern or one area
- Shorter appointment
- With Dr Amy Chahal
- $150 consultation fee
Complexion Consultation
- Your concern is skin quality
- Pigmentation, texture, congestion
- Includes skin imaging
- With a dermal therapist
- Deposit redeemable on treatment
If you want one thing looked at rather than the whole picture, the Focused Consultation is the shorter and less expensive appointment. We would rather put you in the right one.
Your roadmap
The roadmap is what you actually leave with. It is a written document, not a quote, and it is structured around sequence rather than a list of everything available.
Where you are now
What the assessment and 3D imaging show, in plain language — structure, volume, skin quality and how these are interacting.
The next few months
What to address first, and why it comes first. Often this is skin health and foundations rather than the thing you came in worried about.
The next one to two years
What follows once the groundwork is done, in the order that makes each subsequent step work better rather than harder.
The longer view
What is likely to change over five years, what is worth protecting now, and which decisions would limit your options later if made too early.
Your skincare plan
What to use at home, in what order, and why. We review what you are already using, what is worth keeping and what is doing nothing. Skincare is usually what holds everything else in place between appointments, and it is the part of the roadmap you act on daily.
Review points
When to reassess, so the roadmap stays current as your face and your priorities change.
The roadmap accounts for your budget, your tolerance for downtime and your timeframe. A plan you will not follow is not a plan.
What we explore together
A Strategy Session looks at your face as a whole, across cosmetic injectables, energy-based devices and medical skin treatments. Depending on what matters to you, that may include:
- Facial proportion, balance and harmony
- Where volume has changed, and where it has not
- Skin quality, texture and pigmentation
- Lines and folds, and what is actually causing them
- Firmness and structural support
- The shape and definition of individual features
- Skin health and barrier function
- Your current skincare, and whether it is working
- What is likely to change over the next five years
- What to prioritise now, and what can wait
- What you should not do, and why
In line with Australian advertising requirements for cosmetic procedures, this page does not name specific products or prescription medicines. Dr Chahal will discuss the options relevant to you, including their risks, during your consultation.
What happens in your session
What matters to you
Before anything is assessed, we establish what you actually want. Not what is fashionable, and not what you have been told you need — what you would like to look and feel like, and over what timeframe.
Medical history and assessment
A full history, including medications, medical conditions, previous treatment and anything that affects how your skin and tissues behave. This is what makes the roadmap safe as well as sensible.
3D imaging and facial analysis
Imaging captures your face in three dimensions and analyses the skin beneath the surface — volume distribution, asymmetry, structure, and pigmentation and vascular changes not yet visible. It turns an opinion about your face into something you can both look at, and it becomes the baseline you measure progress against.
Your roadmap, built in order
Dr Chahal talks through what the imaging and assessment show, then builds the sequence — what to address first, what follows, what is optional, and what your skincare should be doing alongside it — explaining the reasoning as she goes.
Risks, costs and alternatives
For anything discussed, you will hear the benefits, the risks, the likely downtime, the cost, and what happens if you do nothing. You take the roadmap home in writing and decide in your own time.
New and existing patients welcome · or call (02) 8074 1559
What your roadmap may draw on
TCMA is a doctor-led clinic with a full range of medical-grade technology, alongside cosmetic injectable options. Depending on what your assessment shows, your roadmap may draw on:
- Cosmetic InjectablesDiscussed with Dr Chahal in consultation. Not detailed on this page — see the note below
- Pico LaserPigmentation, sun damage and tone
- Alma HarmonyXLPigmentation and vascular concerns
- Morpheus8Radiofrequency microneedling for texture and laxity
- SofwaveNon-invasive skin tightening
- FaceTiteContouring and tightening of the lower face
- AccuTitePrecision contouring for smaller areas
- Thread LiftingRepositioning and structural support
- SkinPen MicroneedlingTexture, scarring and firmness
- RejuranSkin quality and resilience
- Healite II LEDInflammation, healing and recovery
- HydraFacial SyndeoCleansing, congestion and hydration
- ZO Skin Health PeelResurfacing and pigmentation
- Hair RestorationHair density and scalp health
Australian advertising rules restrict what clinics may publish about cosmetic injectable treatments and prescription medicines, so those options are discussed in consultation rather than described here. Nothing on this list is a recommendation — your roadmap will only include what is appropriate for you.
Why the session is with Dr Chahal
TCMA is a doctor-led clinic, and the Strategy Session is the appointment where that matters most. Sequencing a face over years is a medical judgement: it depends on anatomy, history, how tissue behaves over time, and knowing which interventions foreclose options later.
Dr Chahal teaches and presents to other practitioners on medical aesthetic practice. That work shapes how this consultation runs — it is explanatory by default, and it assumes you would rather understand the reasoning than be handed a recommendation.
- A full hour, not a treatment appointment with a conversation attached
- 3D imaging and assessment before any recommendation is made
- Honest sequencing, including what to leave alone
- Clear discussion of risk, cost, downtime and alternatives
- A written roadmap, so you are not relying on memory
- A direct pathway to our dermal therapy team where skin is the priority
About the consultation fee
The Strategy Session is $250. It is a consultation fee rather than a deposit, and it is not redeemable against treatment.
That is deliberate. A fee that comes off a treatment quietly turns the consultation into the first step of a sale — there is a reason to recommend something. Charging for the consultation itself means the hour is genuinely yours: the advice and the roadmap are the product, including when the advice is that you should do less than you expected, or nothing yet.
You are welcome to take the roadmap away and act on it in your own time, elsewhere, or not at all.
Common questions
How long is the session?
Allow a full hour. If you are having treatment on the same day, allow additional time depending on what is planned.
What is the 3D imaging?
Your face is captured in three dimensions and the skin analysed beneath the surface. It shows volume distribution, asymmetry and structural change, along with pigmentation and vascular patterns that are not yet visible. It gives you and Dr Chahal the same picture to work from, and becomes the baseline you measure change against later.
Is the $250 redeemable against treatment?
No. It is a consultation fee, not a deposit. See the section above for why we structure it that way.
Do I get the roadmap in writing?
Yes. You take it home. It is yours, and you are free to act on it in your own time or not at all.
Will I be treated on the same day?
Sometimes, if something is appropriate and you have had time to consider it. It is never assumed, and there is no expectation that you decide during the appointment.
Should I come without makeup?
Clean skin gives the most accurate imaging and assessment. If that is not practical, we will cleanse your skin at the clinic first.
What if I do not know what I want?
That is a common and completely reasonable starting point — and precisely what this appointment is for. Part of the session is working out what is actually bothering you.
Why does this page not name specific treatments?
Australian advertising rules for cosmetic procedures restrict what clinics may publish about certain treatments and medicines. We follow them. It means specifics belong in the consultation, where they can be discussed properly and in the context of your own circumstances.
Book your strategy session
An hour, 3D imaging, a proper assessment, and a roadmap for the next few years — in the order that makes sense for your face.
240 Riley St, Surry Hills · (02) 8074 1559
