CYCLE-BASED INTERVENTION 102

Available On-Demand

For clinicians looking to better understand the female's cycle and hormones impact on women's overall well-being and mental health. This will deepen your understanding through a somatic and trauma-informed lens to best support and bring new insight to your female clients around their understanding, beliefs & relationship with their cycle and mental health symptoms. 

Trainer: Jordyn Russo, LCSW

Cycle-Based intervention approach: The link between women's menstrual health and mental health

UNDERSTANDING THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE'S IMPACT ON MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH THROUGH A TRAUMA-INFORMED LENSE

  1. Confidently describe the Phases of the Menstrual Cycle: Learn & familiarize yourself with the four phases of the menstrual cycle, as well as, with the hormonal fluctuations that may occur during each phase.

  2. Assist Client’s in understanding how Hormonal Changes impact Mental Health: Have a clear understanding of how hormonal changes during the cycle (specifically estrogen and progesterone) can influence mental health symptoms such as mood swings, anxiety, irritability, and depression. Provide client’s with insight and differentiation between episodes, symptomology and onset by hormones

  3. Identify the Impact of Trauma on Menstrual Cycle Symptoms: Learn how to help clients who have experienced trauma and are more vulnerable to heightened responses to hormonal fluctuation.

  4. Apply Therapeutic Interventions and Tools: Gain understanding and access to tools and interventions through a somatic and trauma-informed lens, such as,  symptom tracking, self-care strategies, and appropriate therapeutic techniques to support clients managing menstrual cycle-related mental health symptoms through this cycle-based intervention approach.

About the course:

INVESTMENT: $299

  • self-paced course

  • Payment plan options

TAKE AWAY/ LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

-Clinicians will be knowledgeable and familiar with the phases of the menstrual cycle and what happens to women’s hormones in each phase

-Gain at least two new tools to assist with cycle-related mental health symptoms

-Help client identify, understand, and plan for symptoms as a result of hormone shifts through an adaptive approach 

-Feel equipped to empower women to reconnect with their female body and enhance body awareness

aDDITIONAL INFO

  • No perquisites required at this time. This training is intended for therapists and or people in a clinical role (LMFT, LSW, LCSW, LPC, LPCC, etc.) However, this is not a requirement.

  • The course is $220 which includes lifetime access.

  • Wildflower Collective is in the process of becoming an approved CE provider through EMDRIA, NBCC and NASW.

  • Your trainer for this course is Jordyn Russo, LCSW. Jordyn has spent over a decade in the field of social work and working on developing this training. Jordyn is a co-owner of Moving Mountains Counseling Center in Littleton, CO where she specializes in working with teen girls and women navigating life transitions, anxiety, panic attacks, and trauma. Jordyn utilizes a holistic, client-centered, and strength-based approach, incorporating EMDR, somatic-based methods, and parts/ego states interventions. Her goal is to help women transform their relationship with their experiences, manage their symptoms, and reconnect with and reclaim their self-trust and sense of self.