Hamilton Women's Aid was founded in January 1984, as part of an initiative between Hamilton Homeless Action Group, Scottish Women's Aid, and Hamilton District Social Work Department. The collective was volunteer led and offered women support and information on topics such a legal issues, welfare, the police, and housing legislation. In 1987, the group moved offices from Almada Street to Burnbank Centre, where they were able to have a dedicated space for counselling. During this year, the Hamilton District Council provided a refuge space, which opened in 1988, and the first paid workers took up their posts. In 1990, the first two children's workers began working with the group.
In 1997, the need for services to be expanded to cover more of South Lanarkshire was identified and the group was successful in gaining funding for a new refuge and office.
The group officially became Hamilton and Clydesdale Women's Aid at the AGM held on November 3, 1998. Then, in 2011, East Kilbride Women's Aid and Hamilton Women's Aid merged together to form Women's Aid South Lanarkshire, before taking on the East Renfrewshire remit and becoming Women's Aid South Lanarkshire & East Renfrewshire (WASLER) in 2014.