FREE LIVE TRAINING
The Menstrual Cycle in Psychotherapy:
The Missing Piece in Your Clinical Practice
Welcome. I’m so glad you’ve landed here.
If you’ve been sensing that something may be missing in how we currently understand mental health, or you’ve found yourself curious about the role the menstrual cycle may play in the therapeutic process, you’re in the right place.
I’d love to invite you into this free training, where we’ll begin exploring how integrating menstrual cycle neurobiology into psychotherapy can profoundly deepen, expand, and transform clinical practice.
Did you know that?
Women are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression and most anxiety disorders as men.
Women are twice as likely to develop PTSD following a traumatic event.
Up to 25% of individuals with PMDD are initially misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder.
The menstrual cycle has been shown to significantly influence and worsen symptoms of trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and chronic pain.
So why are so many mental health professionals still receiving little to no formal training on the menstrual cycle, and how to work with it in psychotherapy?
What if...
incorporating menstrual cycle neurobiology into your clinical practice could profoundly deepen your therapeutic work?
What if...
tailoring interventions, nervous system regulation tools, and therapeutic approaches to align with the menstrual cycle could help shift clients out of stuckness…while also liberating clinical practice from overly linear, patriarchal models of mental health?
What if...
the fluctuations in mood, capacity, and nervous system regulation you’re seeing in your clients are not random, pathological, or resistant…but part of something deeply intelligent, cyclical, and too often overlooked?
What might change in your work if therapy was designed to align with a cyclical nervous system, rather than working around it?
If any of this resonates, this training is for you.
Why This Matters
In most models of mental health, we’re taught to aim for consistency. To stabilize symptoms, and label fluctuations as dysregulation or pathology.
But what if the very thing we’re trying to stabilize, is actually meant to change?
The menstrual cycle has a profound impact on mood, cognition, emotional processing, and nervous system regulation. And yet, it is almost entirely absent from how we assess, diagnose, and treat.
Which means many therapeutic models are unknowingly working against the cyclical nature of the people they’re trying to support.
This isn’t a small gap. But it’s one we can close.
What You'll Discover:
An introduction to the neurobiology of the menstrual cycle and how this lens can profoundly shift the way you understand your clients.
Why the menstrual cycle is a foundational, yet often overlooked, component of mental health.
How many of your clients’ symptom patterns and therapeutic breakthroughs may be meaningfully mapped across the cycle.
How Cycle-Informed Therapy can be seamlessly and beautifully integrated into any therapeutic modality.
Who This Is For
You’re a psychotherapist, psychologist, social worker or mental health practitioner
You want to learn more about how the menstrual cycle affects mental health and how to work effectively with this
You’re looking to add depth to your body focused or somatic therapy practice
You want your trauma therapy practice to truly reflect the nervous systems of the people you work with
You’re curious about practicing in a way that feels more aligned, intuitive, and effective
What Are People Saying?
Before training with MC, I rarely asked clients about their cycle. Despite being a cis-woman, I had a very limited understanding about what happened during the cycle and had several internalized misogynistic messages about the cycle itself. After training with MC, I walked away feeling empowered. MC was brilliant in weaving together biology and social and historical contexts and offered tangible and practical tools to integrate these new learnings. This was one of the most impactful trainings I have participated in, and I would highly recommend MC’s teachings!
Shelby Hopland-Guidi Clinical Social Worker
MC teaches from a place of deep knowledge, and wholehearted respect for women and the gift of our menstrual cycle. Since the training, I've been integrating the understanding that women are cyclical beings—and that we can track mental and emotional shifts based on the natural relationship of hormones in the body. I have seen this shift in my practice by countering the shame embedded in mental‑health frameworks that operate from a non‑cyclical lens which often does not accurately reflect the female experience.This is ground breaking for myself as a therapist and my clients.
Shannon Clark MSW, Hakomi Therapist
What Our Clients Are Saying
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Hi, I'm MC Decker!
I’m a Registered Psychologist based in Alberta, Canada, and the Founder of Mindful Cycles Psychology
Over the past several years, my work has focused on understanding the intersection between mental health and the menstrual cycle and what becomes possible when we begin to integrate this into clinical practice.
This work has emerged from a personal journey trying to heal my own menstrual migraines as well as clinical observation and a growing awareness of a significant gap in how we understand mental health.
And it has completely transformed how I practice.
A Gentle Next Step
This training is also a preview of a deeper body of work I’ll be teaching in my upcoming course, Mindful Cycles: A menstrual cycle informed therapy training.
If this approach resonates with you, I’ll share more about how you can continue learning at the end of the session.
There is an intelligence to the body that has been overlooked for far too long.
And when we begin to listen to it, everything about how we understand and support mental health can shift.