Perimenopause is not just a biological transition — it’s a relational, emotional, and identity-level shift that shows up in therapy rooms every day.

This 2-hour continuing education training is designed to help mental health clinicians better understand how perimenopause intersects with midlife development, mental health symptoms, and relationship dynamics — and how to support clients without over-pathologizing or minimizing what they’re experiencing.

Many clients enter therapy during this stage saying things like:

“I don’t feel like myself anymore.”

“Everything feels harder.”

“My relationships feel different — or strained.”

“I’m more reactive, emotional, exhausted, or numb.”

This training helps therapists recognize when hormonal shifts may be part of the picture, ask better questions, and support clients with clarity, validation, and appropriate referral.

Training Format

Length: 2 hours

Format: Live Virtual: Friday, March 27, 2026 10am-12pm CST (virtual recording will be available after)

CEUs: 2 continuing education hours

Access: Recording and materials provided with purchase (if recorded)

Certificate: Issued upon completion of quiz and post-training evaluation

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify common mental health symptoms associated with perimenopause, including anxiety, mood changes, irritability, sleep disturbance, brain fog, and emotional dysregulation

• Understand how hormonal changes can intensify existing mental health conditions, trauma responses, and ADHD symptoms

• Recognize how perimenopause often impacts relationships, including partnership strain, changes in desire, increased conflict, shifting roles, and identity renegotiation

• Support clients navigating midlife transitions, grief, and meaning-making alongside physiological change

• Ask more intentional, clinically appropriate questions about menstrual history, sleep patterns, symptom timing, and relational shifts

• Help clients make sense of their experience through psychoeducation and normalization, without stepping outside scope

• Know when and where to refer, including menopause-informed medical providers and allied professionals who take symptoms seriously

How This Training Supports Your Clinical Work

Therapists are often the first — and sometimes only — professionals clients talk to about what they’re experiencing.

This training will help you:

• Validate client experiences without dismissing or medicalizing them

• Reduce shame and self-blame clients often carry during midlife transitions

• Improve clinical formulation by integrating psychological, relational, and physiological factors

• Collaborate more effectively with medical providers through informed referrals

• Feel more confident saying, “This makes sense — and here’s what we can do next.”

Who This Training Is For

This course is designed for:

• Licensed mental health professionals

• LPC Associates / pre-licensed clinicians

• Therapists working with adult women and midlife clients

• Clinicians noticing increased relational distress, mood shifts, or identity questioning in clients ages ~35–55

• Therapists who want a more holistic, relational, and informed lens in their work

No prior training in hormones, menopause, or midlife psychology is required.

What This Training Is (and Is Not)

This training is:

• Mental health–focused

• Relational and trauma-informed

• Clinically grounded and scope-appropriate

• Designed to increase awareness and confidence

This training is not:

• Medical advice or hormone treatment guidance

• Diagnostic or prescriptive

• A replacement for medical care

Therapists will leave better prepared to support, educate, and refer, not treat medical conditions.