Understand the Biology Behind the Symptoms
Connect hormonal and neuropsychological changes to the mood, sleep, and cognitive presentations you're already seeing in your clients.
Apply Trauma-Informed Clinical Reasoning
Explore the ACEs–menopause intersection and learn to recognize when a client's history is amplifying what looks like a midlife mood disorder.
Bonus: Understanding Perimenopause Booklet
Psychoeducational Booklet for you and your clients about the menopause transition. Aids understanding stages, common signs, hormones as neuroactive agents, how to talk with others, workplace and other lifestyle tools from a mental health perspective.
Course Overview
This is a two-hour, intermediate-level continuing education course for licensed mental health clinicians working with perimenopausal clients who carry a trauma history. More than a quarter of US women report childhood abuse or neglect, and close to half report interpersonal or sexual trauma in adulthood. For perimenopausal clients carrying that history, the transition is rarely just about hormones — a trauma history is associated with a heavier symptom burden, more vasomotor symptoms, fragmented sleep, and, over the longer arc, accelerating cardiovascular risk and changes in brain health from perimenopause forward. Most clients have never had the connection named for them. Many clinicians were never trained to name it either. This course closes that gap. Module 1 establishes the evidence base — prevalence, the neuroendocrine mechanism, and the long arc. Module 2 takes that evidence into trauma-informed clinical practice — screening, recognizing amplification in the room, evidence-based interventions, and a case vignette. The course closes with a 10-item post-test and a brief evaluation. Participants who complete all requirements receive 2.0 continuing education credit hours. EDUCATIONAL GOALS This course is designed to: Increase clinician recognition of trauma as a clinically significant factor in the perimenopausal experience. Equip therapists with an evidence-based, trauma-informed framework for working with perimenopausal clients. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Describe the documented effects of a trauma history on the perimenopausal transition, including symptom burden, vasomotor symptoms, sleep, mood, and longer-term cardiovascular and brain health. Apply trauma-informed screening for trauma history and PTSD alongside perimenopausal symptom assessment in clinical practice.
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Course Details
Format · Self-Study / Distance Learning — video, audio, reading materials, and case vignettes CE Hours · 2.0 hours of continuing education credit (1 CE credit = 1 hour of instructional time; breaks and orientation lessons are not counted toward CE credit) Tuition · $33 — all course materials, post-test, evaluation, and certificate included; no additional fees Schedule · Self-paced; available immediately upon enrollment Target Audience · LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs Level · Intermediate (2+ years post-master's experience) Post-Test · 70% minimum passing score; unlimited attempts Certificate · Auto-issued through Thinkific upon post-test passage and evaluation submission Note · Module 00 (course orientation, syllabus review, and learning objectives) is provided as enrollment context and is not counted toward the 2 CE instructional hours. Continuing education credit Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Julie Cardoza, LMFT, CAMFT Continuing Education Provider #61115, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Julie Cardoza, LMFT, CAMFT Continuing Education Provider #61115 maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
About the Instructor
Julie Cardoza, M.S., LMFT, RYT, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, IWHI Certified Menopause Coach, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California (LMFT #41066). She owns a private solo practice in Fresno, California focused on perimenopausal mental health, trauma, and the nervous system, and provides EMDR Consultation to clinicians throughout the United States and Canada. She is the founder and owner of Heartscapes, LLC, offering wellness consulting, menopause coaching, and somatic restorative yoga for women in midlife. Her clinical practice is Somatic EMDR, working from a nervous-system-informed perspective. She is the sole author of this course and assumes full responsibility for its content. Julie Cardoza, LMFT · CAMFT Continuing Education Provider #61115 · juliecardoza.com
Policies
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 [email protected] within 3 days of the purchase date. Refunds will be processed within 10 business days. 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. Accommodations. For special-needs accommodations — including assistive technology, alternative formats, or other adjustments — email [email protected] at least 7 days before enrollment. We will work with you to ensure the course is accessible. Grievances. Grievances may be submitted by email to [email protected]. 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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