$24.99
Description
This 60-minute continuing education (CE) training for mental health professionals provides a practical, evidence-informed exploration of women’s mental health in outpatient therapy settings. The course will focus on hormonal and reproductive transitions that are frequently overlooked, misdiagnosed, or misunderstood in clinical practice.
Designed for therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other behavioral health providers, this women’s mental health training examines how hormonal fluctuations across the lifespan—including menstrual cycles, PMDD, pregnancy, postpartum changes, fertility challenges, perimenopause, and menopause—can significantly impact mood, anxiety, trauma symptoms, cognition, sleep, and nervous system regulation.
Participants will learn how to:
- Integrate hormonal and reproductive mental health screening into intake and treatment planning
- Recognize signs of hormone-related mood and anxiety disorders
- Reduce the risk of misdiagnosis in women’s mental health care
- Differentiate trauma-related symptoms from hormonally influenced symptom patterns
- Understand the nervous system impacts of reproductive transitions
- Apply ethical, scope-appropriate clinical decision-making in outpatient settings
This CE course also addresses common diagnostic pitfalls. This includes when symptoms may be inaccurately attributed solely to depression, anxiety, personality disorders, or trauma without adequate assessment of biological contributors. Clinicians will gain greater diagnostic clarity and confidence when treating clients navigating perinatal mental health concerns, reproductive transitions, and midlife hormonal changes.
Throughout the training, participants will receive information on how to provide culturally responsive, inclusive care that honors diverse reproductive experiences. The overall goal is to strengthen clinical competence in women’s mental health.