Honing Our Power Through the Change: A Group for Peri/Menopausal Women

Sun, 21 Sep, 2025 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 03:30 pm UTC-07:00

298 Grand Ave | Oakland

Doorway Therapeutic Services
Publisher/HostDoorway Therapeutic Services
Honing Our Power Through the Change: A Group for Peri\/Menopausal Women Menopause is more than hot flashes. Get resourced, be seen, and share support in this therapist led group for peri/menopausal women
About this Event

This circle is a response to a cultural gap — one where perimenopause is often dismissed, underdiagnosed, or reduced to a purely medical event. In truth, this is a transformational time that touches every aspect of life: our mental health, relationships, sense of self, sexuality, and spirit.

Here, we honor it all. The anxiety. The grief. The rage. The sacred reclaiming. The wisdom emerging.

This group was created by Courtney Watson, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, who brings over a decade of experience in helping clients navigate identity, intimacy, and life transitions — and who is herself currently walking the path of perimenopause.


Format & Flow
  • Meets once per month on or just before the new moon
  • 6 Sundays from September to February
  • Held in person in Oakland at our Lake Merritt Office
  • 90-minute sessions guided by ritual, reflection, gaining resources and group process

Group Values
  • Intimacy + Containment: This is a closed group of 6 participants. We ask for commitment to at least 5 of the 6 sessions.
  • Confidentiality: All shares remain within the group container.
  • Decolonized Perspective: This group centers Spirit, community care, ancestral knowing, and internal wisdom — not pathology
  • Spiritual Integration: Mental and spiritual health are woven together alongside of diverse healing modalities for the physical realities of what we are going through. This also group includes elements of altar work, ritual, and reflection rooted in each person's individual ancestry.

Session Dates (Winter to Spring Circle)
  • Sept 21 – New Moon in Virgo
  • Oct 12 – New Moon in Libra
  • Nov 16 – New Moon in Scorpio
  • Dec 14 – New Moon in Sagittarius
  • Jan 18 – New Moon in Capricorn
  • Feb 15 – New Moon in Aquarius

If you are ready to explore this transition not at loss, but emergence and want a spiritually rooted, emotionally affirmed and non-medically pathologized space for The Change, this group is for you!


Cost: $90/month including materials and therapeutic support


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Agenda
Arrival & Tea Time

Info: have some tea ~ open personal altar ~ open collective altar ~ personal breathwork/meditative time


Group Check In

Info: popcorn style sharing with prompts from Courtney


Group Process & Topic Discussion

Info: open space for folx to reflect and share what's coming up ~ brief teaching or framing around the month's topic ~ option for guest speaker


New Moon Intention Setting & Closing

Info: Invitation to name an intention and reflections for the coming moon cycle ~ closing altar time


Event Venue

298 Grand Ave, 298 Grand Avenue, Oakland, United States

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