Group Clinical Consultation
Mood, Hormones & the Nervous System Across the Lifespan
A 6-Week Case Consultation Series for Clinicians
This 6-week small-group clinical consultation is designed for licensed clinicians seeking deeper confidence in working with mood symptoms influenced by hormonal shifts across the lifespan, nervous system regulation, and chronic stress physiology.
From puberty through the reproductive years, perimenopause, menopause, and beyond, hormonal transitions can significantly shape emotional regulation, cognition, sleep, appetite, and stress tolerance. These changes are often misunderstood, minimized, or misdiagnosed—leaving both clients and clinicians feeling confused or stuck.
Clients may present with anxiety, depression, irritability, rage, ADHD-like symptoms, eating concerns, or emotional volatility that do not fully align with diagnostic categories or can mimic DSM diagnosis. This consultation group supports clinicians in recognizing how endocrine rhythms, stress hormones, and nervous system states interact to influence mood and behavior throughout life.
The focus of this group is clinical application and case consultation—not therapy, supervision, or protocol-based training.
- Work with adolescents, adults, or midlife clients experiencing mood variability or emotional shifts
- Notice symptoms changing with hormonal transitions, stress, sleep disruption, or life stages for AFAB clients
- Support clients navigating puberty, reproductive years, pregnancy/postpartum, perimenopause, or menopause
- Feel constrained by DSM-only frameworks when symptoms may mimic DSM diagnosis or don’t quit fit a diagnosis
- Want hormone-informed, nervous-system-aware language for assessment and treatment planning
- Differentiate between state and trait to identify hormonal vs diagnosis traits
Appropriate for:
Licensed mental health clinicians, social workers, psychologists, dietitians, physicians, and other healthcare providers working with mood and behavioral health.
This consultation group supports clinicians in thinking through questions such as:
- How do I differentiate hormonal mood shifts from anxiety, depression, ADHD, or mood disorders?
- How do I differentiate hormonal mood shifts through the lens of state vs trait?
- When symptoms intensify during certain life stages or times of the month, how much is hormonal versus psychological?
- How do hormonal changes across the lifespan—including puberty, reproductive years, perimenopause, and menopause—impact emotional regulation and stress tolerance?
- Why do some clients develop new mood symptoms, rage, panic, or cognitive changes in midlife despite no prior psychiatric history?
- How do estrogen and progesterone fluctuations interact with the nervous system to influence irritability, reactivity, or shutdown?
- What language helps validate biological influence without minimizing emotional experience?
- How do cortisol, chronic stress, and trauma history amplify hormonal vulnerability?
- Why do eating behavior, appetite, body image, or rigidity often shift alongside mood changes?
- How can I collaborate more effectively with medical providers when hormonal factors may be relevant?
- How do I document these patterns clearly and ethically without overstating causality?
This group is:
- Clinical case consultation
- Professional development
- Educational and collaborative
- Grounded in hormonal and nervous system physiology
This group is not:
- Therapy
- Clinical supervision
- Medical consultation or hormone prescribing
- A formal continuing education (CEU) course
Participants may be able to apply hours toward self-directed or independent learning requirements, depending on their licensing board. Participants are responsible for confirming eligibility with their board.
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Group size: 6–10 clinicians
- Format: Live via Zoom
- Session length: 75–90 minutes weekly
Each session includes:
- Brief clinical framing around a weekly theme
- Case consultation using fully de-identified material
- Integration of assessment language, psychoeducation strategies, and treatment planning
- Participation in all six live consultation sessions
- Digital copy of Mood & Moon: A Body-Led Guide to Cycling Bodies
- Case-based discussion and clinical integration
- Certificate of Participation documenting total hours
- $600 total for the 6-week consultation series
- Paid in full at beginning of session= $525
- Payment plans available
- $600 = 6 Weekly payments of $100
- This group is consultation-based and educational in nature
- All cases must be fully de-identified
- Participants are expected to practice within their professional scope and licensure
- A Certificate of Participation will be provided; this program is not approved for formal CEUs