Groups + Workshops for Midlife Women
Throughout California
Enrolling Now for May 17, 2026
Join us for this half-day, virtual retreat designed specifically for Gen-X and Millennial women navigating the powerful (yet often bumpy) perimenopause transition.
We were never meant to make this journey alone, so please join us Sunday, May 18, for community care, education and expression.
Here's what you can expect from our time together:
This is not a workshop where you’ll be asked to push through or fix yourself.
It’s a space to slow down and begin making sense of what’s changing emotionally, psychologically, and internally during perimenopause.
Together, we’ll move at a gentle, intentional pace, combining brief, grounded guidance with reflection and simple, body-based practices.
You’ll have the opportunity to explore:
Anxiety, irritability, and emotional intensity
Grief, questioning, and identity shifts
The sense that old ways of coping or being are no longer working
Resource sharing
And the gifts of perimenopause ... yes, there are some!
Through guided reflection, you’ll begin to put language to your experience and create community in the process.
There will be some context about what’s happening in the body, but the focus of this retreat is not on symptom management. It’s on understanding yourself.
You are welcome to participate in whatever way feels right for you—camera on or off, sharing or simply listening. There is no pressure to engage beyond your comfort.
We’ll close with space for integration, so you leave with greater clarity, self-compassion, and one small, supportive way to move forward.
NOT CURRENTLY ENROLLING
Ours by Write: A Therapeutic Writing Workshop for Women
We are storytelling creatures by nature. It’s how we make sense of ourselves and the world around us, but too often as women we’re discouraged from sharing our truths.
Join us for an 8-week autobiographical writing group for women as we unearth, explore and voice our stories, and support as other women do the same.
We’ll ask: What stories are you aching to tell? What narratives are you curious to explore? Which stories have you inherited and which stories are you (re)writing for yourself?
Each group meeting will include a writing warm-up, sharing of writing developed outside of group, supportive feedback and a closing ritual. The group will culminate in an optional 3-hour workshop where we create small handmade books of our writing.
This workshop is ideal for women who:
- are already participating in individual therapy and would like to explore writing as an adjunctive form of healing
- have stacks of journals, and want to give their words more space to breathe
- have always wanted to write, but have felt fearful, shy or otherwise shutdown
- are seeking creative, supportive community
This workshop is focused on the process of writing and expression, not the craft of writing. No experience is required!
Cost: $440 for 8 weeks | Maximum enrollment 6 people
(Cost does not include optional final book-making workshop)
For more information please call Jessika Fruchter, LMFT
@ 510-295-5767 or email jessikafruchtermft@gmail.com