3-Month Closed Group · Women · Midlife

Make The Second Half
of Life The Best Half

Reclaim your voice, visibility, and vitality as a woman maturing into her prime.

Next cohort begins 16 September 2026

For the woman who has done everything right - and still feels that the life she is living is not quite the one she is meant to be living.

You have built the career, held the relationships, carried the responsibilities. And yet something remains unsettled. Not broken - but not fully alive either. You have been performing so long, you are not sure where the performance ends and you begin.

This programme is not about optimising yourself. It is about coming home to yourself. That is a different project entirely.

Is this you?

You may recognise yourself here

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Your body feels different: sleep changes, energy dips, brain fog, hormonal shifts - and you're not sure what's happening or what to do with it.

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You feel less visible - socially, professionally, sexually, emotionally - and you don't know what to do with that.

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You've done everything "right," yet feel a dissatisfaction you can't quite justify. As if the life you're living isn't where you're meant to be.

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You're done with self-improvement culture. You want truth, tenderness, and real agency - not more advice on how to optimise yourself.

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You've built your life around being useful - for family, work, community. But you wonder: who are you when you're not doing things for others?

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You're ready to stop performing and start living - without losing your competence, your identity, or your dignity.

"I stand against the cultural reduction of women in midlife. I work for clinical depth, soul, and lived experience held together. The second half is lived, not survived."

- Dr Alla Demutska
Why I do this

I am living this too

Because I am in it. I am going through this transition myself, and I watch the women around me - my friends, my clients - moving through it too, often alone, often certain that something has gone wrong with them.

Nothing has gone wrong with them. This is the passage. And it is brutal when you go through it unmet - lost, doubting your worth, measuring yourself against everything you were told you should have become by now. I have felt that. I have sat with women inside it.

I have also seen the other side. When a woman is supported through this time, it stops being only a loss. She puts down what was never hers to carry and comes back to herself - her values, her passion, the aliveness underneath the roles. Watching that turn happen is one of the most beautiful things I know. That is why I do this work.

What this offers

A container for real change

Self-acceptance is not a topic in this programme. It is the foundation - the quality of attention we bring to every session, and that the group learns to bring to itself. You will feel it in how the space is held.

This is a small, closed group of 12 sessions - not drop-in, not a course. A relational container where trust builds over three months, depth forms, and real things can be said and felt. What happens here stays here.

Each month has its own arc - but the thread running through all of them is the same: returning you to yourself.

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    A body you can inhabit without criticismAcceptance of physical change as transition - not something to be fixed or overcome.

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    Self-compassion that is felt, not just understoodThe capacity to meet yourself - including the difficult parts - with genuine warmth rather than judgment.

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    Identity rooted in what you choose, not what you have accumulatedKnowing who you are when you are not being useful, performing, or managing others' comfort.

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    Joy and desire as legitimate parts of your lifeNot rewards for completing the hard work - recognised as necessary, not indulgent.

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    A voice you trust and a life you have actually chosenClarity about what matters - expressed honestly, lived genuinely.

Programme structure

Three months. One continuous thread.

Month One · Sessions 1-4

Body, Emotion,
and the Inner Voice

Building the container. Establishing the kind of safety that allows real things to be said. The first month works through the three threads that meet most insistently in midlife - the body that has changed, the emotions that competence has been masking, and the inner voice that has been auditing all of it.

  • Arriving - being here as an act of self-regard
  • What you are actually feeling - the emotional layer underneath the busyness
  • The inner critic and the inner ally - the voice that runs underneath everything
  • The mirror is not the enemy - returning to a body that has changed
Month Two · Sessions 5-8

The Strategies
That Built You

The middle month turns to the ways you learned to cope, achieve, and hold it all together. These strategies kept you safe once, and they deserve gratitude for that. This is the month of seeing them clearly, grieving them honestly, and letting go of the conditioning and the shoulds you no longer need to carry.

  • The strategies that built you, and where they stop serving you
  • Gratitude for what once kept you safe
  • Grieving the roles, the shoulds, the conditioning
  • Letting go of what is no longer yours to carry
Month Three · Sessions 9-12

Passion, Values,
and the Soul's Calling

The most expansive month. When the old strategies loosen their grip, something long set aside begins to return - passion, creativity, and a sense of what is calling you now. This is where you find your voice, clarify what genuinely matters, and come back to who you are underneath it all.

  • Passion and creativity, reclaiming what was surrendered
  • The soul's calling - what wants to come alive now
  • Values you live, not the ones you were handed
  • Finding your voice, and coming home to yourself

"A contained, intelligent space for women to reclaim voice, visibility, and vitality - and move from functioning to living."

- Dr. Alla Demutska
Your facilitators

Two practitioners. One programme.

Dr Alla Demutska

Dr Alla Demutska

Clinical Psychologist · DPsych (Clinical) · AHPRA

I am a clinical psychologist with 15+ years of experience across Australia, Singapore, and internationally. I am Clinical Director of Counselling and Psychotherapy at The School of Positive Psychology in Singapore, where I design and teach the Advanced Trauma curriculum.

My primary modalities are EMDR, schema therapy, ACT, attachment-informed work, and polyvagal theory. I work with women in midlife - perimenopause, identity, body image, the second half of life - as both my clinical specialism and my own current territory.

I am 48. I do not write or teach from a position of having arrived. I am in process alongside the women I work with.

Dr Yvonne Sum

Dr Yvonne Sum

Leadership Specialist · Co-founder, 5Echo

Yvonne is a published international author on leadership and strategy, and co-founder of 5Echo, a global consultancy supporting C-level executives. She brings deep experience in how high-achieving women lead, perform, and navigate power in professional life - what the executive world asks of them, and what it costs.

The pairing is the structural choice. Clinical depth alongside a working understanding of what midlife actually does to a capable woman's professional life.

Investment

Introductory pricing

Programme fee

USD $1,500
the full programme · 12 sessions · 3 months

All 12 weekly live sessions (90 minutes each), between-session prompts, private cohort group space, and ongoing access to the materials. Small closed group of 12 to 14 women. Includes complimentary access to my mini-courses (normally sold separately) for three months after the programme finishes.

USD $125 per 90-minute session with two experienced facilitators in the room - well below the cost of equivalent individual psychotherapy (typically USD $200-300 for a 50-minute session in Singapore and Australia).

Pay USD $1,500 upfront, or hold your place with USD $200 deposit and the balance USD $1,300 by 17 August 2026.

Dates & time

Starts Wed 16 September 2026
Finishes Wed 2 December 2026

5:00 pm Bali · Singapore (UTC+8)
7pm Sydney · 6pm Tokyo · 10am London

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Sessions run weekly at the same time across 12 weeks.

Hold your place · $200 or apply without deposit →

This is a psychoeducational and facilitation-based group and is not a substitute for individual psychotherapy, mental health treatment, or crisis support. If you require individual care, referral pathways are available.

10% of every payment goes to PKP Community Centre in Bali, which supports women and children escaping domestic violence. The equivalent of USD $84 per month supports one woman to leave a violent situation. Learn more →

This is where passion and creativity come back - the parts of you buried under years of adapting and performing. It is the return to who you are underneath the conditioning, before you learned who to be. Twelve weeks of clinical depth, lived experience, and the part closer to soul than to technique. Small group. Two facilitators. If this is your season, hold your place.

Next cohort begins 16 September 2026
Hold your place · $200 Apply without deposit

Not ready for a group? The self-paced courses are another way to begin this work, on your own.

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