Understanding Menopause and Mental Health

One-Day Online Workshop, Seven Hours 

The experience of pre-menopause/perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause is rarely talked about, yet thousands of people are diagnosed daily with menopause-related challenges.

It shows up in clinical settings in many ways: if someone has been medically induced and is having many symptoms at once; if the whole family is under stress because “now Mom is mad all the time;” if a client cannot get a medical doctor to acknowledge that all her symptoms are connected and address them as such; or a client feels sex is just “too painful now” and plans never to have sex again. Even the clinicians themselves who may be in perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause, may not understand their own bodies anymore and find their work life more difficult than ever. 

Join Licensed Mental Health Counselor Rebecca Bloom for an illuminating workshop examining menopause and mental health. Whether you’re a clinician or an individual looking for deeper understanding of this physical and mental transition, you will gain in-depth knowledge of the 37 most common symptoms of perimenopause and menopause that affect us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually. 

In this workshop Rebecca also shares how to discuss these symptoms with doctors or clients and how to advocate for the necessary medical care. Examine how biases and inequalities surrounding race and gender, LGBTQIA+, socio-economic status, and more impact whether someone receives accessible, affordable, adequate, and effective health care.  

Explore how the lack of adequate medical care for girls, women, and those Assigned Female at Birth (AFAB) continues throughout their lifespan and greatly impacts all aspects of their lives. This lack of adequate, affirming medical attention leads to this natural hormonal experience negatively impacting “everything” in our lives. 

Find answers and community in this interactive workshop designed for anyone interested in the effects of perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause on mental health.  
 

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Rebecca Bloom is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor specializing in Adults with Complex with Post Traumatic Stress in South Seattle. She combines traditional talk, art, and somatic based therapy methods. She is a white, cis, Jewish Queer woman, living with hidden disabilities. She presents internationally on using Tarot in Therapy and offers the first six-hour continuing education credit offered opportunity for mental health clinicians on Menopause. She is trained in Level 2 of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and is currently working toward a certification in Sex Therapy, having attended the CIIS post graduate program. For fun, she watercolors, collages from vintage ephemera, and makes Borscht from scratch. 

 

Important Workshop Information 
 

Accessibility 
 
If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the event. For more information, explore our Accessibility web page.

Recording Policy 

Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to all ticket buyers. 

Refund Policy 

Tickets are fully refundable up to 7 days prior to the event start. Within 7 days of the event, a 50% partial refund is available. No refunds are available within 24 hours of the event start. Read our full refund policy at our Frequently Asked Questions web page.