The Menopause Intake: What Every Therapist Should Be Asking

Many clinicians routinely ask about sleep, medications, relationships, trauma and substance use—but never ask where a client is in her reproductive or hormonal life stage. That omission can leave important pieces of the clinical picture unexplored. The Menopause Intake gives mental-health clinicians a practical framework for incorporating perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause into routine biopsychosocial assessment. Participants learn what questions to ask, how to identify patterns that warrant further exploration, when symptoms may require medical collaboration, and how to integrate menopause-related information without assuming that every midlfe symptom is hormonal.