FAQs
What services do you offer?
We offer a range of solutions designed to meet workplace and women individual needs through menopause and midlife complexities.
How do I get started?
Getting started is simple. If you are an individual and ready to join us please simply follow the link to register to one of our programmes. If you are an orgaisation or an individual with questions - reach out through our contact form - we’ll walk you through the next steps and answer any questions along the way.
What makes you different?
We combine a thoughtful, human-centered approach understanding your needs and working with you to ensure results that are embedded. It’s not just what we do—it’s how we do it that sets us apart.
For individual coaching we use text based coaching as people lead busy lives and want to be coached when it is needed and not another meeting to prepare for in their calendar.
How can I contact you?
You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
What is your pricing model?
For individuals we have set programmes and text based coaching packages. Please go to The Transition Studio - Women for details.
For organisations we offer flexible pricing based on type of engagement and complexity. After an initial conversation, we’ll provide a transparent quote with no hidden costs
What is a Menopause champion?
A Fractional Menopause Champion is a part‑time menopause specialist who helps organisations create menopause‑inclusive workplaces through expert guidance, policy development, manager training, and confidential employee support—improving retention, wellbeing, and performance without the cost of a full‑time hire
What type of organisations do you work with?
Absolutely — and this is an important point. The challenges facing midlife professional women are not unique to any one sector. Kyndara works with organisations across healthcare, education, the public sector, legal, financial services, the charity sector, professional services and beyond.
If you employ professional women in their 40s and 50s — you need Kyndara. The sector matters far less than the commitment to doing this properly. All programmes are designed around your specific organisation, workforce and culture, not a generic off-the-shelf model.
What is a Fractional midlife champion?
Fractional Midlife Champion is an experienced expert embedded within your organisation on a part-time, retained basis — not a one-off project consultant. They provide ongoing 1:1 support for employees and your managers, advise on policy development, support culture change initiatives, and sit alongside your People and Executive team to build lasting structural change.
It is the affordable alternative to a full-time senior wellbeing hire — giving organisations the expertise, continuity and strategic direction they need, at a fraction of the cost.
What is text based coaching?
Text coaching is professional coaching delivered entirely by written message — no video calls, no scheduled appointments, no rearranged diary. You write to your coach once a day at a time that suits you — on your commute, at lunchtime, in the evening — and receive a thoughtful, personalised response within 24 hours on every weekday.
Kyndara uses this model because the women it serves are busy, high-performing professionals whose lives don't bend easily around fixed Zoom appointments. Text coaching also has a unique depth advantage: writing about what you're experiencing promotes reflection and clarity in a way that spoken conversation doesn't always allow. Over 8 weeks, clients report significant shifts in clarity, confidence and direction — often saying the written format helped them articulate things they had never been able to say out loud.
Is menopause or midlife coaching the same are therapy or counselling?
No — and the distinction matters. Therapy and counselling are clinical disciplines focused on healing psychological distress, often working through past experiences and trauma. They are appropriate and important for mental health conditions and are delivered by qualified clinicians.
Coaching is forward-focused: it works with where you are now and where you want to get to, using structured frameworks, goal-setting, reflection and accountability to create meaningful change. Kyndara's coaches are trained midlife and menopause specialists, not therapists. If at any point a client would benefit from clinical support, a Kyndara coach will always signpost appropriately. Many women find coaching and therapy powerfully complementary.
Who would benefit from text based coaching for menopause or midlife?
Kyndara's individual programmes are designed for professional women in midlife — typically in their 40s, 50s and 60s — who are navigating perimenopause, menopause, a significant career transition or workplace career shift.
Many clients are high-achieving, capable women who have functioned at a high level for years — and simply notice that something has shifted. Confidence feels less solid. Clarity feels harder to reach. A decision they would once have made easily now feels murky. That is more than enough reason to seek structured support. The earlier you engage, the faster and more effective the progress tends to be.
Why is Kyndara unique?
Kyndara is built on a dual expertise most providers simply don't have. Founder Darlene Schroeder has worked at executive level as a Business Transformation Leader across multiple industries — and retrained as a specialist midlife coach and Licenced Menopause Champion after navigating her own perimenopause while leading complex programmes at pace.
This means Kyndara understands both sides: the individual woman's experience from the inside, and the organisational systems and culture levers that determine whether women thrive or leave. Most providers address one or the other. Kyndara addresses both — and connects them. For organisations, this means culture change grounded in real transformation expertise. For individuals, this means coaching from someone who genuinely understands what it means to be a senior professional navigating midlife.