Menopause CBT Clinic

27/11/2025

As we wrap up the latest cohort of the EMBERS® Professional Training Programme, I’ve been thinking about what this really means for the women who are struggling through menopause, especially those who are wondering whether psychological support might help.

This cohort brought together clinicians from the UK, US, the Bahamas, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Colombia, and Russia. The fact that professionals from so many parts of the world are seeking this training says something important:
💛 Women everywhere are experiencing emotional and psychological difficulties during menopause and they deserve support that truly understands what they’re going through.

Menopause-informed psychological care matters because:
• Many women are told “it’s just hormones” when something deeper is happening
• Symptoms such as anxiety, low mood, brain fog, irritability, or a sense of “not feeling like yourself” are often misunderstood or dismissed
• So many women have never had their experience properly explained or validated

If you’ve been feeling confused, overwhelmed, or unlike the person you used to be, you are not alone and there is a way forward.

This specialised psychological approach can help you:
✨ Make sense of what’s happening in your mind and body
✨ Feel more in control and less overwhelmed
✨ Rebuild confidence, resilience, and clarity
✨ Move from coping to thriving

Seeing clinicians from around the world commit to learning menopause-informed psychological care gives me real hope. It means more women will have access to support that is compassionate, informed, and actually tailored to this stage of life.

If you’re considering getting help, please know this:
🔥 You deserve care that recognises your experience - not minimises it.
🔥 You deserve a safe space to understand what’s happening.
🔥 You deserve to feel like yourself again.

And support is available. Women everywhere deserve nothing less.

If you’ve been struggling and are ready for support, you don’t have to do this alone. Me and my colleagues at the Menopause CBT Clinic® can help you feel like yourself again and regain control over your mind, body, and life.

Reach out via our website💛

23/10/2025

The NHS has just announced that the routine 40–74 health check will now include questions about menopause for the first time. 🙌

This is brilliant news and a long-overdue recognition that menopause matters to women’s health.

But we also know menopause is not just a physical transition.It can profoundly affect mood, confidence, identity, and emotional wellbeing.

That’s why we need to make sure that mental health is part of this new health check, too.

Women identified as struggling with low mood, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm deserve access to menopause-informed psychological care, not just medication or reassurance.

As a community we can help make this happen, by raising awareness, sharing good practice, and keeping the conversation focused on the whole woman: mind and body.

🎥 I’m sharing this short video — Be Part of the Change in Menopause Psychological Care — as a reminder of why this matters and how we can lead the way.

Please take a few minutes to watch and share it.

Together, we can make sure this new initiative truly supports women in every sense. 💛

💬 What small actions can each of us take to help ensure mental health becomes part of this new menopause health check? Let’s make our collective voice heard.

18/10/2025

🌍 Happy World Menopause Day 2025!!!!

This year’s theme is Lifestyle Medicine, an evidence-based approach that uses everyday lifestyle choices as powerful tools to prevent and manage health challenges.

Lifestyle Medicine focuses on six key pillars: sleep, nutrition, movement, stress regulation, connection, and reducing harmful substances. Together, they help restore balance to both mind and body, something especially important during menopause, when the brain is recalibrating and the body is rebalancing.

Therapy plays a vital role in this process, not by prescribing diet or exercise plans, but by supporting behavioural change. It helps women reflect on what they already know, build confidence, and turn small, sustainable habits into lasting change through mindset and self-compassion work.

Menopause is not something to “get through” as it’s a time to rebalance, to care for yourself with kindness while your body and brain adapt.

Here are 6 small, evidence-based ways to start:
💤 Sleep: Create a gentle wind-down routine - dim the lights, avoid screens for at least 30 minutes before bed and do something calming before bed. Quality sleep supports hormone balance and mood regulation.

🥗 Nutrition: Think steady energy - balanced meals with fibre, protein, whole foods, and plenty of colour on your plate. Avoid skipping meals (your brain and blood sugar will thank you).

🚶‍♀️ Movement: Move every day in ways that feel good - a brisk walk in nature (even better), dancing, stretching, or strength work. You don’t have to “exercise”, just keep your body moving and avoid long periods of sitting. Movement boosts endorphins and supports bone, brain, and heart health.

🧘‍♀️ Stress Regulation: Even 5 minutes of slow breathing, mindfulness, or journaling can calm your nervous system and reduce cortisol.

💬 Connection: Spend time with people who lift you up. Social connection protects mental health and builds resilience.

☕️ Reduce Harmful Substances: Notice your relationship with alcohol, caffeine, ni****ne, and screen time. Small reductions can make a big difference in how you sleep, think, and feel during the menopause.

💛 Small steps count. You don’t have to change everything - consistency, not perfection, is what supports long-term balance.

This World Menopause Day, take one small action for your wellbeing. Because how you live is part of how you heal. 🌿

08/10/2025

When therapy “doesn’t work”, it’s not always about the person who's seeking support or the therapist. Sometimes it’s about CONTEXT.

Hormonal changes during menopause can deeply affect mood, anxiety, sleep, and sense of self, yet many women’s therapy never touches on it.

That’s why Menopause-Informed Psychological Care matters. It helps women feel seen, understood, and supported in ways that generic therapy often can’t.

And that’s where the EMBERS® Menopause-Informed CBT framework comes in - an evidence-based approach that adapts therapy to the menopausal context, bridging CBT, neuroscience, and lifestyle medicine to help women regain control over their mind, body, and life.

💛 The next EMBERS® Professional Training Programme starts 22 Oct – 26 Nov. Booking is open for one week only!

👉https://www.menopausecbtclinic.co.uk/embers-professional-training_-booking-page-october-25

Let’s make Menopause-Informed Psychological Care the norm, not the exception.

If you believe in the importance of Menopause-Informed Psychological Care, please help spread the word by sharing this post with your community. Your support helps more clinicians make an informed decision to join. Thank you 🙏

01/10/2025

Have you ever felt this as a clinician?

Ever felt like therapy for menopause just… isn’t quite helping? It’s not because you’re “not trying hard enough.” It’s not because your therapist isn’t skilled.

Here’s the truth: most therapy wasn’t designed with menopause in mind. Think of it like this: 🔪 A knife works brilliantly in the kitchen. But would you want the same knife used in surgery? Of course not. Both are “knives,” but one is adapted for a very specific, delicate job.

It’s the same with therapy. Generic therapy tools are helpful, but when it comes to menopause, you need an approach adapted to this stage of life. Otherwise, you can end up feeling “stuck,” confused, or even blaming themselves.

✨ That’s what Menopause-Informed Psychological Care does. It takes proven approaches like CBT and adapts them to the unique challenges of menopause, so you feel understood, validated, and supported in ways that make real change possible. Because therapy should fit YOU, not the other way round. 💛

I’d love to hear your experience: When you’ve had therapy, did menopause or hormonal changes ever get mentioned? If not, what would you want and hope for from therapy at this stage of life?

24/09/2025

🌸 Is menopause the missing link in how we understand midlife women?

So often, women are told their struggles are “just stress” or “all in their head.” But what if the missing piece isn’t another miracle cure… but something much simpler: AWARENESS.

Menopause is a universal transition, yet too often its impact on mental health gets overlooked. That’s why so many women feel dismissed or unsupported when they’re dealing with brain fog, anxiety, low mood, or exhaustion in midlife.

Awareness changes everything. ✨ It helps us see these experiences are real and valid. It reframes symptoms as part of a biopsychosocial transition, not a failing. And it opens the door to strategies that can restore balance and help you move from suffering to thriving.

💛 Awareness is where transformation begins.

👉 Have you noticed how hormonal shifts affect your mood, sleep, or clarity of mind?

Share your experience below. And remember, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

19/09/2025

Such a great pleasure to meet Dr Louise Oliver, the Breath Doc®, at the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Conference.

Breathing might feel so natural we hardly notice it, but how we breathe makes a big difference, especially during menopause.
Mouth breathing, in particular, can disrupt sleep, leave us feeling drowsy, dehydrated, and add to the brain fog many women already struggle with.

The good news? A few small shifts in breathing habits can calm the nervous system, improve focus, and make daily life that little bit easier.

Take a moment today to notice your own breathing. Do you find yourself mouth breathing? Drop a comment below as I’d love to hear your experience.

17/09/2025

🌟 Exciting news! 🌟

I'm thrilled to welcome Lynsey Eland from to the Menopause CBT Clinic® team as an Associate Trainer!

Lynsey has a wealth of experience in training and supporting women’s emotional wellbeing, and I can’t wait for what’s ahead.

👉 Drop a 💕 in the comments to help us welcome her!

25/05/2025

Many people try to control their stress by telling themselves to calm down. If you tried that in the past you probably know that that method rarely works. In my sessions, I often teach women the power of breath to help control the stress reaction. Here is a thorough explanation from a neuroscientist Andrew Huberman how this method works and how to apply the physiological sigh to calm down when feeling under stress.

30/04/2025

Last week, a new client told me that a therapist she saw the month before had said: “There’s no therapy for menopause because it's a physical issue. Therapy is for mental health problems.”

And sadly… I’ve heard this more than once.

But here’s the truth: Menopause can bring a range of mental health challenges because it affects brain chemistry, mood regulation, identity, sleep, and emotional resilience.

This client wasn’t just dealing with hot flushes. She was dealing with:
• intrusive thoughts
• chronic sleep issues
• unpredictable mood swings
• anxiety and emotional overwhelm
And she felt completely unsupported.

Hearing stories like this is what led me to create this FREE resource for mental health professionals: “Nine Myths Mental Health Professionals STILL Believe About Menopause - and What TO DO Instead”

Inside, you’ll uncover the most common misconceptions that get in the way of effective support and how to start doing things differently.

Whether you're a therapist, psychologist, or coach, this will shift the way you work with women going through menopause.

Download your free copy via the link below:
https://www.menopausecbtclinic.co.uk/9-myths-mental-health-professional-must-unlearn

Women deserve access to effective psychological support, and menopause-informed psychological care can help deliver it.
Please share this resource with anyone who might benefit.

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21/04/2025

Have you been feeling like you're not quite yourself lately?

Mood swings, anxiety, brain fog, exhaustion… it’s easy to wonder if you’re “losing it.” You’re not. And you’re not alone!!!!

It’s exactly what I see in my clinic day in and day out.

The truth is, menopause can have a huge impact on your mental and emotional wellbeing, but most women are never told why, or what to do about it.

To help you understand the WHY, I put together a free video called ‘The Midlife Shift: From Menopause to Inner-GLOW’.

It will take you just 20 minutes to understand:
✨ Why menopause affects your mind and mood
✨ How to understand what’s happening in your brain
✨ Simple tools (like the ABCD method) to take back control, starting today

Believe me when I say: You don’t have to just get through it. There is a way to get back control over your mind, body and life and feel like yourself again.

Watch the free video here: https://www.menopausecbtclinic.co.uk/free-video

Drop me a DM if you want to understand what support could look like for you!