Service Description

This postgraduate training is designed for Craniosacral Therapists and Osteopaths who wish to deepen their understanding and skills in supporting women through the transition of peri-menopause. A separate course on menopause and post-menopause will follow. While Craniosacral Therapy has traditionally focused on pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period, perimenopause represents another profound developmental threshold - reshaping physiology, identity, and the nervous system, and requiring equally skilled therapeutic support. This course explores the physiological, hormonal, emotional and psychological changes of peri-menopause, including the roles of oestrogen, progesterone, cortisol and related systems. Common symptoms are considered alongside Craniosacral Therapy approaches that support regulation and wellbeing. Peri-menopause is more than a hormonal shift; it is a developmental transition that invites reflection, reorganisation and change. As hormonal resilience changes, long-held patterns, identities and adaptive strategies may become more apparent. Rather than viewing symptoms as dysfunction, Craniosacral Therapy offers a lens of curiosity, understanding them as expressions of the body’s attempt to adapt and reorganise. Each client brings a lived history held within the body. Early experiences including a woman’s own birth may shape nervous system development and lifelong patterns of responding to stress, change and transition. Peri-menopause may bring earlier adaptations into greater awareness, including experiences from birth, childhood, reproductive history, loss, trauma and other significant life events. As a major transition, it can offer an opportunity for integration. Craniosacral Therapy is not about fixing peri-menopause, but creating the conditions for deep listening to: • the body • the nervous system • the tissues • emotional experience • adaptive patterns • the deeper intelligence beneath symptoms From this listening, clients may begin to recognise the layers beneath symptoms: exhaustion beneath striving, grief beneath irritation, and the emergence of a more authentic sense of self. Peri-menopause is a whole-person shift affecting physiology, psychology, relationships, identity, energy and meaning. Autumn is a season of harvest, a time to gather wisdom and release what no longer serves. Many clients move from asking, “How do I get back to who I was?” to “Who am I becoming now?” For more info please see our instagram post