Julie Cardoza LMFT
Somatic EMDR Therapy - EMDR Consultation - Courses for Therapists
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 depression that isn't shifting, unexplainable anxiety, or complex trauma that suddenly feels fresh again?
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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.
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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.
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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.
Clinical Assessment: Implement evidence-based screening and treatment strategies.​
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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.
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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.
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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 •
