Digital Seminar
Menopause and Mental Health
Integrative Tools from ACT, DBT, and CBT to Manage Mood Symptoms, Body Image & More
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- Faculty:
- Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 04 Minutes
- Copyright:
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Jan 30, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150507
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
If you treat women over 35, you need to be ready to work with the impacts of menopause. This training gives you the science, tools, and confidence you need.
- Become menopause-informed in just one day - without guessing or Googling
- Know how to talk about hormones and mood
- Simple solutions for hot flashes and night sweats
- Clinical tools for body image, anxiety, intimacy concerns, and more
I used to run into roadblocks in treatment with my clients in midlife and beyond because I wasn’t menopause-informed.
The irritability, anxiety, brain fog, sleeplessness – it all looked like stress to me. And midlife is full of stress: caregiving, career pivots, divorce, reinvention.
But something deeper was happening.
My clients weren’t just overwhelmed. They were changing – physically, emotionally, hormonally – and they felt unmoored.
And there I was, recommending breathing techniques to manage stress, or offering time management strategies to create space for self-care.
These techniques collapsed quickly and, looking back now … I can see I was missing something important.
I wasn’t addressing the grief over shifting identity … the hormone-based emotion dysregulation … the body image distress and related health risks from disordered eating to “fix” it …
Or the reality of hot flashes, night sweats, and disrupted sleep that no amount of sleep hygiene could settle.
No more.
Now, I work from a menopause-informed lens – one that sees the whole person and the full hormonal story. And my clients go deeper. Heal more.
I’ll show you how to recognize the impact of menopause and what you can do about it. Grounded in science, empathy, and real-world clinical insight, this training will help you:
- Reduce anxiety, mood swings, and depression tied to hormonal changes
- Teach clients how to build new, kinder relationships with their changing bodies
- Address identity shifts and relationship strain with confidence
- Support better sleep, even with night sweats or early waking
- Empower clients to move through this transition with meaning and self-compassion
Whether you work in private practice, community care, or any setting where women seek support – or you’re a woman navigating this stage yourself – this training gives you the language and tools you need to show up for your clients with expertise and understanding.
Women deserve better care at midlife. Menopause has been overlooked for too long. Let’s change that – together.
Warmly,
Signe
Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS
Author of A Woman’s Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-Being at Midlife
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Menopause and Mental Health (4.8 MB) | 49 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Menopause and Mental Health - French (4.8 MB) | 49 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Menopause and Mental Health - Italian (4.8 MB) | 49 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Menopause and Mental Health - German (4.8 MB) | 49 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Menopause and Mental Health - Spanish (4.8 MB) | 49 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS Related seminars and products
Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS, is host of Therapy Rocks! a personal growth podcast, author of A Women’s Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-Being at Midlife, and co-author of No Weigh! A Teen’s Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom as well as Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image. Signe provides telehealth therapy services and case consultation focused on menopause, body image, and eating disorders in the state of California. She is the past president of the International Association of Eating Disorders (iaedp™) SF Bay Area Chapter. Over the past several years, she’s been recognized by various organizations for her accomplishments in women’s health and business while also being requested for speaking engagements at renowned institutions like top-rated Rancho La Puerta Spa in Mexico, Stanford University, Gallo Winery, and Pinterest Headquarters. Her body of work has been featured in various newspapers, magazines, and online sites, such as Forbes and CNN. She’s made several appearances on radio and television in northern California, including KTVU FOX 2, FOX 40, ABC7’s talk show The View from the Bay, the CBS-affiliate talk show Bay Area Focus with Emmy winner Susan Sikora as well as The Lady Brain Show with Steph Walton.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Signe Darpinian maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Signe Darpinian is a member of the Menopause Society and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.
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Objectives
- Evaluate the relationship between hormones and mental health symptoms relevant to the menopause transition.
- Develop psychoeducation for clients about the impact of the menopause transition on their well-being.
- Utilize two evidence-based interventions to decrease symptoms that impact mental health during the menopause transition.
- Choose two intuitive eating interventions to reduce body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating for clients at midlife.
- Identify strategies to assist clients with increasing social support during the menopause transition.
- Determine when to refer to a menopause practitioner.
Outline
The Taboo Transition
Menopause and Its Impact
- Historical neglect of women’s health
- Basics of menopause
- Relationship between hormones and mental & physical health
- Top mental health concerns
- Hot flashes, joint pain, and more
- Potential body image issues
- Importance of a weight-inclusive approach
- What your client has probably heard from their doctor about treatment options
Assessment and Preparation for Therapy
Where and How to Focus
- Psychoeducation
- Top questions to find out if menopause is influencing symptoms
- Assess depression and anxiety in midlife
- Track body dissatisfaction
- Understand your clients’ use of exercise
- Screen for eating disorders
- Food recall to understand eating patterns
- Risks related to dieting and weight-cycling
- Questions for sleep disruption
Treatment Interventions
“Love Your Body” is No Longer Enough
- Normalize mental health challenges in midlife
- Thought records for anxiety & depression
- Behavior chain analysis for problematic patterns
- DBT distress tolerance techniques to soothe intense emotions
- Emotion mind, reasonable mind, and wise mind
- Identify and act in accordance with values
- Dispel clients’ fears about brain fog
- Constructive worry intervention for sleep
- Sleep hygiene tips at midlife
- CBT for hot flashes and night sweats
- Intuitive eating and gentle nutrition
- Cope Ahead technique to build self-trust with food
- Tap into reward circuitry with exercise
- Tools to combat unidimensional identity centered on body image
- Cognitive reframing to reshape unhelpful body image thoughts
- Personal photos exercise
- Micro goals to improve body image
- Grief work for body dissatisfaction
- Help clients cultivate friendship with food
- Relational concerns: intimacy, caretaking, bereavement
- Strategies to increase social support
Additional Clinical Considerations
Help Your Clients Navigate A New Chapter
- Collaborate with medical and other professionals
- Scope of practice issues
- When to refer to a menopause practitioner
- Special considerations for early and medically-induced menopause
- Affirming care for transgender clients
- Menopause symptoms in the workplace
- Research limitations and potential risks
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Addiction Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychotherapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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