Menopause and Mental Health
TRAINING FOR THERAPISTS
CAMFT Continuing Education Provider #61115
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Menopause and Mental Health:
A Comprehensive Clinical Framework for Therapists
Are your midlife clients struggling with treatment-resistant depression, unexplainable anxiety, or complex trauma that suddenly feels fresh again?
These symptoms are frequently rooted in the menopausal transition—yet graduate schools and licensing exams offer zero preparation for it. Without a clear clinical framework, even advanced clinicians miss the signs.
Equip your clinical practice with this 6-hour self-paced continuing education course. Earn your CEUs while mastering a specialized, trauma-informed framework for midlife care.
What You Will Learn:
The Biology of Menopause: Understand the endocrine and neurobiological shifts.
Depression & Anxiety: Identify and treat sudden-onset or treatment-resistant mood changes.
ACEs, Trauma, and PTSD: Navigate how midlife transitions trigger historical trauma.
Special Populations: Clinical protocols for cancer-induced and medical menopause.
Culturally Responsive Care: Deliver intersectional and LGBTQ+-affirming midlife support.
nical Assessment: Implement evidence-based screening and treatment strategies.​
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Course Video Sample
BRIDGING THE GAP:
PERIMENOPAUSE AND TRAUMA
The Realities of Midlife Trauma Care:
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High Trauma Prevalence: 25%+ of women carry childhood abuse history; nearly 50% report adult interpersonal trauma.
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Compounded Symptom Burden: Trauma history directly exacerbates vasomotor symptoms, sleep fragmentation, long-term cardiovascular risks, and midlife brain health changes.
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The Systemic Gap: Most clients have never had this connection named for them—and most therapists weren't trained to spot it.
Equip your clinical practice with a clear, somatic and nervous-system-informed framework to navigate this complex transition.
About Your Instructor
Welcome!
I am Julie Cardoza, MS, LMFT, RYT, a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over twenty years of clinical experience.
As an EMDRIA-APPROVED CONSULTANT holding a specialized MENOPAUSE CERTIFICATE from the INTEGRATIVE WOMEN'S HEALTH INSTITUTE (IWHI), my clinical specialization sits precisely at the intersection of TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE, SOMATIC EMDR, and WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH ACROSS THE MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION.
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I am on a mission to radically transform the menopause conversation in mental health. This work is deeply personal: it was born out of my own lived experience navigating sudden surgical menopause following a BILATERAL SALPINGO-OOPHORECTOMY, alongside the hard-won lessons of re-stabilizing my own nervous system during that transition.
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Through my own journey and my private clinical practice, I observed a critical systemic gap: exceptional licensed clinicians treating midlife women without formal training in the biological, psychological, and trauma-informed dimensions of perimenopause. My mission is to equip therapists with the exact somatic frameworks needed to close this gap and transform midlife care.
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Julie Cardoza, LMFT • CAMFT CONTINUING EDUCATION PROVIDER #61115 •
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Julie Cardoza, LMFT, CAMFT Continuing Education Provider #61115, Is an approved provider by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.
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Current courses are all Self-Paced for online asynchronous learning for your own pacing with materials
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​If you are not a California LMFT, LCSW, LPCC and/or LEP and are seeking continuing education credit please consult your state's continuing education requirements.
About the Course and Continuing Education Credit
Refund and cancellation. A full refund is available within 3 days of purchase if no course modules have been accessed. Once any module has been opened in the learning management system, no refund is available. To request a refund, email jcardozalmft@gmail.com within 3 days of the purchase date. Refunds will be processed within 10 business days.
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Course access and completion. Course access is granted for one year from the date of enrollment. Participants must complete all course requirements — including module content, the post-test, and the course evaluation — within one year of purchase to receive CE credit. Certificates cannot be issued for incomplete enrollments after access expires.
​Grievances. Grievances may be submitted by email to jcardozalmft@gmail.com. Grievances will be acknowledged within 2 business days and resolved within 30 days. A record of all grievances and resolutions is maintained.
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Accommodations. For special-needs accommodations — including assistive technology, alternative formats, or other adjustments — email jcardozalmft@gmail.com at least 7 days before enrollment. I will work with you to ensure the course is accessible.