Menopause is a profound shift in health and identity.
Clarity and calm guidance matter — especially when menopause follows cancer treatment.
This work sits with women, organisations and communities, shaped by lived experience, informed by evidence, and delivered with care.
What this stage asks of us — and how it can be navigated — looks different for every woman.
Understanding the landscape matters.
Menopause is shaped by biology, history, access to care and lived experience. For some, it unfolds gradually.
For others — particularly after cancer treatment — it arrives suddenly and with far-reaching consequences.
How menopause is approached here.
Here, menopause is approached through listening, education and thoughtful facilitation.
The focus is not on quick answers, but on helping people orient themselves within complexity.
It shows up in conversations with women, in rooms where health and work intersect, and in spaces where menopause — including menopause after cancer — needs to be understood with depth and care.
Where this work takes place.
This work moves across different kinds of rooms. It shows up in private conversations with women navigating change, in facilitated spaces where learning and reflection are needed, and in organisational settings where menopause intersects with work, leadership and long-term health. Each context asks for a different pace, a different language, and a different kind of holding — but the standard remains the same.
Care is taken to meet people where they are, without rushing, simplifying or assuming.
private conversations with women navigating change,
facilitated spaces where learning and reflection are needed,
organisational and community settings where menopause intersects with work, leadership and long-term health.
People come to this work seeking understanding — not just information. Support is offered through clear education, thoughtful conversation and facilitated spaces that allow complexity to be held rather than rushed.
Whether working with women directly, or alongside organisations and communities, the aim is the same: to help people make sense of what is happening, and to move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
How people are supported.
People come to this work seeking understanding — not just information. Support is offered through clear education, thoughtful conversation and facilitated spaces that allow complexity to be held rather than rushed.
The aim is to help people make sense of what is happening, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
My work brings this approach into practice with women, organisations and communities navigating menopause, including menopause after cancer.
If this way of approaching menopause resonates, there are several places this work continues.
With women
For women navigating menopause after cancer — this work offers space to make sense of what is changing, ask better questions, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Space to make sense of what is changing and move forward with clarity and confidence.
This work supports organisations and communities to better understand menopause as a health, participation and leadership issue — and to respond with care, context and responsibility.
Within organisations and communities
Support for understanding menopause as a health, participation and leadership issue.
Reflections from the room
“Sonya is a natural host: warm, engaging, and effortlessly professional. She consistently creates a space that’s inclusive, insightful, and compelling. The audience loved her.”
— Dr Ceri Cashell“We were honoured to have Sonya speak at our panel event and share her powerful personal story of navigating cancer and medically induced menopause. With honesty and grace, Sonya’s voice sparked meaningful conversation and connection and her words stayed with us long after the event ended.”
— Elizabeth Barbalich“Sonya presented at our staff meetings. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Many shared that the session gave them the confidence to begin navigating their own experiences and to better support friends, family, and coworkers. Sonya offered a thoughtful, engaging, and empowering presentation.”
— Kathy M“Listening to Sonya speak is a real joy. She has such strong conviction and confidence, with a wonderful ability to articulate her boldness and sense of justice.”
— Erica Whalen