Free Women Veteran Peer Support San Antonio | Grace After Fire
Grace After Fire runs free, peer-led support groups specifically for women veterans, with active programming in San Antonio. Founded by women veterans for women veterans, the organization’s Table Talk peer support model and Coffee and Conversation drop-in groups give female service members and women family members a space designed around their experience — not adapted from a male-centered veteran model. The organization was started in Texas and now runs nationally, but San Antonio remains a core hub.
What to Expect
Coffee and Conversation meets every Monday from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. — a short, informal drop-in to start the week with other women veterans. The Table Talk peer-to-peer group (the flagship ‘Color Me Camo’ format) meets every Thursday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Both are facilitated by trained women veteran peer leaders and follow a confidential peer support model. Conversations range across reintegration, military sexual trauma, deployment-related stress, parenting through service, relationships, employment, and the particular weight of being a woman in the military. There is no curriculum, no clinical pressure, and no fee. Sessions are offered virtually with options for in-person gatherings depending on the local calendar.
Who This Group Is For
Women who have served in any branch of the U.S. military — Vietnam, Gulf War, post-9/11 Iraq and Afghanistan, peacetime, National Guard, Reserves — at any point and for any length. All discharge statuses are welcome. Female family members of veterans (mothers, partners, daughters, sisters) are welcome at some sessions; check the schedule. The group is intentionally inclusive of women of color, LGBTQ+ women veterans, and women navigating MST.
Why Peer Support Works
Women veterans are routinely under-served by general veteran programming, which is typically built around male combat experiences. A women-only peer room removes the explaining and centers shared experience, including the experiences that are difficult to surface in mixed-gender veteran settings. Grace After Fire’s model has been adopted nationally because it consistently reaches women who would not otherwise enter veteran support spaces — and because peer-led care reaches women veterans that VA outreach often misses entirely.
How to Join
The groups are free. To register for Coffee and Conversation, Table Talk, or to ask about San Antonio-specific in-person events, visit graceafterfire.org/table-talk. The Women Veterans of San Antonio (WVSA) chapter also connects local women veterans to peer programming and can be reached at (830) 391-9235 or WomenVetsOfSA@gmail.com.