This workshop explores perimenopause and menopause, how it can impact women’s health and mental health.
It will discuss the issues currently facing the women and also explain the current campaigns that are campaigning for change in relation to menopause.
Discussion will also take place on what other issues may face women at this stage on their life.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understand the symptoms physically and emotionally related to menopause.
- Explore how menopause fits into the Women’s Health Strategy.
- Understand how society can impact feelings around menopause, and how you can support women and how women can support themselves.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Health Care professionals. counselllors, support workers, and individuals who are interested in knowing more about the menopause.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Have an understanding of how experiencing the menopause can impact women mentally and physically.
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Blakemore is a mum of three, who is a counsellor with specialism in infant loss and birth trauma. Kate has had her private counselling practice since 2012 and has a diploma in Specialist Fertility Counselling.
Kate is also the founder and Chief Executive of the charity Motherwell Cheshire, a Women and Girls Charity which was founded in 2015.
Kate is passionate about supporting women and girls and in particular mums mental health. Kate felt there were many books out there for new mums but nothing really available for the “mothering journey” and so the start of the book “mums the word – the mothering journey” began.
