6

hours

Live

Virtual & interactive

4×

Offered per year

Case

Based learning

THE EXPERIENCE

A day that changes your practice

Six focused hours designed to give advanced practice clinicians a practical framework for understanding, assessing, and treating mental health conditions across the reproductive lifespan.

Rather than simply reviewing the evidence, Foundations teaches you how to think through the clinical decisions that make reproductive psychiatry complex—from reproductive history and hormonal transitions to psychopharmacology, risk-benefit conversations, and challenging cases.

What You’ll Learn

Reproductive Psychiatry Across the Lifespan

Build a foundation for understanding how reproductive hormones and transitions can influence psychiatric symptoms, vulnerability, and treatment across:

Menstruation & PMDD · Fertility & IVF · Pregnancy · Postpartum & Lactation · Perimenopause · Menopause

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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

The curriculum

The Reproductive Psychiatry Lens

Understand how reproductive history, hormones, and reproductive transitions can influence mental health, assessment, and treatment.

Explore the clinical impact of:

  • Menstrual cycles and hormonal changes
  • Fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum
  • Lactation and reproductive loss
  • Contraception and hormonal medications
  • Perimenopause and menopause
  • Screening and differential diagnosis
Assessment & Differential Diagnosis

Learn how to integrate reproductive health into a psychiatric assessment—what to ask, what to screen for, and how reproductive history and transitions can shape your differential diagnosis.

We’ll explore:

  • Asking the right reproductive psychiatry questions
  • Identifying symptom patterns and timing
  • Selecting and interpreting screening tools
  • Distinguishing psychiatric symptoms from reproductive and hormonal influences
  • Recognizing medication, contraceptive, and fertility-treatment considerations
  • Building a more informed differential diagnosis
Psychopharmacology Across Reproductive Transitions

Move beyond “Is this medication safe?” and learn a practical framework for medication decisions across the reproductive lifespan.

Explore how to consider:

  • Risks of untreated illness
  • Medication risks and available evidence
  • Fertility and reproductive goals
  • Pregnancy, lactation, and hormonal treatments
  • Shared decision-making, patient counseling, and follow-up
Clinical Application

Apply the reproductive psychiatry framework to common conditions, complex clinical situations, and real-world casesacross the reproductive lifespan.

Explore how to approach assessment, treatment decisions, patient counseling, referral, and collaborative care when the answer isn’t always straightforward.

You’ll Leave With

Practical tools and resources you can use beyond the course:

  • Reproductive psychiatry assessment framework
  • Medication decision-making framework
  • Screening and clinical resources
  • Evidence and guideline resources
  • Patient education tools
  • Referral and collaboration guidance
  • Clinical pearls for real-world practice

A framework. A phrase. A plan.

UPCOMING COHORTS

Future dates

All sessions run 8:00 am – 3:00 pm MT, live and virtual, with 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks.

2027

Friday, March 19, 2027
Thursday, June 10, 2027
Friday, September 10, 2027
Thursday, December 2, 2027

2028

Thursday, March 2, 2028
Friday, June 9, 2028
Thursday, September 7, 2028
Friday, December 1, 2028

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Made for advanced practice

The Intensive is designed for psychiatric-mental health and women’s health nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, physician associates, and clinical nurse specialists. Physicians, therapists, and trainees who want a structured foundation are warmly welcome.

Learning Objectives

By the end of Foundations, participants will be able to:

  • Describe reproductive psychiatry across the reproductive lifespan.
  • Integrate reproductive health into psychiatric assessment.
  • Apply risk-benefit principles to psychopharmacologic decisions.
  • Recognize how reproductive transitions can influence psychiatric presentations.
  • Apply foundational clinical reasoning to reproductive psychiatry cases.
  • Identify when consultation, referral, or collaborative care is appropriate.
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Tell us which date works for you and we will reply within one business day with confirmation and payment details. Seats are limited to keep discussion rich.