Women's Hormone Health Practitioner
Program Curriculum
A comprehensive practitioner training designed to give you the knowledge, clinical reasoning skills, and practical tools to confidently support women with hormone and menstrual health concerns.
Across 12 modules, you'll build a strong foundation in menstrual cycle and hormone health, learn how to connect symptoms and patterns, work through real client cases, and develop practical strategies you can apply in your work with clients.
12 Modules
40+ Lectures
Handouts & Protocols
How Is the Course Delivered?
The program combines a comprehensive curriculum with ongoing teaching, real-world case application, and practical protocols designed to help you put what you're learning into practice.
12
Comprehensive Program Modules
Each module contains 3–6 video lectures (15–30 minutes long), handouts, and additional resources — all evidence-based with links to hundreds of research studies and references cited.
9
Clinical Application Trainings
9 Clinical Application Trainings where you'll review each of the modules, discuss specific conditions and protocols as well as hormone testing to broaden your exposure to the most common conditions.
3
Client Case Study Review Series
During the second half of the program, you'll get access to our Client Case Study Review Series, where we'll take a deep dive into 3 individual cases, discussing what challenges they faced, their symptoms, what interventions we used, and their results. The goal of these recordings is to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
20+
Condition Protocols
Practical, condition-specific protocols help you translate what you're learning into client support strategies for common hormone and menstrual health concerns – from estrogen and progesterone imbalances to blood sugar dysregulation, stress/HPA-axis dysfunction, thyroid health, and more.
12 Modules
Two Semesters
↓Click any module to explore the learning objectives, lectures, handouts, and resources.
Semester 1
Foundations
Learning Objectives
- Understand the basic role and functions of the menstrual cycle and why ovulation is important for overall health
- Understand the four phases of the menstrual cycle and the hormonal changes that happen during each phase
- Understand how the brain and ovaries communicate throughout the menstrual cycle, how an egg develops and ovulation happens, and some of the factors that can disrupt or stop ovulation
- Know what a healthy menstrual cycle generally looks like and recognize common signs that a cycle may not be functioning optimally
- Understand what the menstrual cycle can tell us about a client's overall health
- Understand the basics of cycle tracking, including cervical fluid, basal body temperature, and other signs and symptoms throughout the cycle
- Recognize the signs that ovulation has likely occurred and use cycle-tracking information to help identify when it may have happened
- Begin to interpret basic cycle-tracking information, including what it may be telling you and when you don't yet have enough information to draw a conclusion
- Learn how to explain menstrual cycle and cycle-tracking concepts to clients in a way that is clear, practical, and easy to understand
Module Content
- Lecture 1: Introduction to the Menstrual Cycle (Basic Role and Function)
- Lecture 2: The Four Phases of the Menstrual Cycle and the Hormonal Fluctuations that Drive Them
- Lecture 3: What is a Normal Menstrual Cycle?
- Lecture 4: Cycle Tracking 101
Handouts & Resources
- Handout: Menstrual Cycle Tracking 101
- Handout: Using Cycle Tracking with Clients
- Handout: How to Become a Period Detective
- Client Template: Paper Cycle Tracking Chart (Fahrenheit and Celsius)
- Resources: Cycle Tracking Devices
- Resources: Certified Fertility Awareness Educators
Semester 2
Root-Cause Systems & Clinical Integration
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of individualized nutrition to support proper endocrine system function
- Explain how food quality (including organic, pasture-raised, and sustainably sourced options) impacts hormonal and overall health
- Describe the essential roles of the three macronutrients (fat, protein, and carbohydrates) in hormone production and regulation
- Explore how different macronutrient ratios can influence hormone balance and metabolic health
- Evaluate the benefits and limitations of plant-based proteins within a hormone-supportive diet
- Learn how to combine macronutrients in balanced meals to support stable blood sugar and optimal hormonal function
- Understand how micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, and trace elements) influence endocrine health
- Describe the role of key vitamins in metabolic pathways, hormone synthesis, and overall wellbeing
- Explain how minerals and trace elements contribute to hormone production, signaling, and detoxification
Module Content
- Lecture 1: The Impact of Fat on Hormones and Overall Health
- Lecture 2: The Impact of Carbohydrates on Hormones and Overall Health
- Lecture 3: The Impact of Protein on Hormones and Overall Health
- Lecture 4: How to Combine Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates
- Lecture 5: The Micronutrients Part 1 (Vitamins)
- Lecture 6: The Micronutrients Part 2 (Minerals & Trace Elements)
Handouts & Resources
- Handout: Five Popular Diets
- Handout: Macronutrients Made Easy
- Handout: Diet & Lifestyle Guidelines
- Resources: Protein/Sustainable Agriculture
- Resources: Seed Oils
See What It's Like Inside the Program
Get instant access to popular lectures in Module 1: Introduction to the Menstrual Cycle and Module 10: HPA Axis & Adrenals, completely free.
Where Theory Becomes Practice
Go From Understanding the Material to Knowing How to Use It
The modules give you the foundational knowledge. Your Clinical Application Trainings take that learning one step further, showing you how key concepts translate into practical, real-world work with clients.
Released alongside the modules they complement, these in-depth trainings allow us to go deeper into topics that deserve additional attention — from helping clients understand and track their cycles to communicating complex hormone concepts in a way they can actually understand, adapting your approach based on a client's goals, life stage, and readiness, and using tools and technology appropriately in practice.
You'll see how we take what you've learned in the curriculum, connect the dots, and translate the science into information and strategies you can actually use with the women you support.
See Clinical Reasoning in Action With Real Client Cases
Knowing hormone physiology is one thing. Knowing what to do when a real client walks in with multiple symptoms, a complicated health history, and several possible areas to address is where the real learning happens.
Throughout the program, you'll follow three real client cases and watch as we work through each one step by step — reviewing the client's history, symptoms, cycle patterns, health data, and other relevant information; identifying connections and priorities; and exploring how we might approach their support.
These case study reviews are designed to help you see how a practitioner thinks — what information matters, what questions to ask, how to connect seemingly unrelated symptoms, where to start, and how to avoid getting overwhelmed when a client doesn't fit neatly into a textbook example.
You'll also see how the Period Detective Framework comes to life in practice, moving from observation and pattern recognition to forming hypotheses, choosing appropriate interventions, and reassessing as new information emerges.
Practical Protocols for Real-World Client Concerns
Designed around the hormone patterns and health concerns practitioners commonly encounter, these protocols give you practical frameworks you can individualize to each client's needs.
Estrogen Dominance & High Estrogen
Breaks down the types and causes of estrogen dominance, with food, lifestyle, and supplement support to restore the estrogen-progesterone balance essential for cycle health.
Low Estrogen
A root-cause approach to supporting natural estrogen production and restoring healthy brain-ovary communication, with nutrition, lifestyle, and testing guidance.
Low Progesterone
Restoring consistent ovulation and corpus luteum function through diet, lifestyle, and supplement strategies, plus lab testing and bioidentical progesterone guidance.
High Androgens
Identifying and addressing root causes of elevated androgens — blood sugar, insulin resistance, stress, low progesterone — through diet, lifestyle, and supplementation.
This isn't a fixed list — we're adding new protocols on an ongoing basis as new research, client cases, and conditions come up. Every future addition is included free with your enrollment.
Program Outcomes
What Your Certification Actually Means You Can Do
Institute for Menstrual Health
Women's Hormone Health Practitioner Certification
Accredited by NBHWC (Approved CE) & UKIHCA (Approved CPD)
Know Where to Start With a Client
Learn how to look at a client's symptoms, cycle patterns, health history, lifestyle, and other relevant factors together so you can identify patterns, prioritize what needs attention, and determine where to begin, even when there are multiple things going on at once.
Understand What Your Client's Cycle Is Telling You
Know how to assess menstrual cycle patterns, symptoms, basal body temperature, cervical fluid, and other relevant health data to better understand what may be happening hormonally and use those insights to guide your approach.
Create Individualized Nutrition & Lifestyle Strategies
Move beyond generic hormone-health advice and learn how to choose appropriate nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, and lifestyle strategies based on each client's symptoms, goals, health history, and individual needs.
Connect the Dots Between Hormones and Whole-Body Health
Understand how blood sugar, gut health, thyroid function, stress physiology, inflammation, environmental exposures, and other body systems can influence hormone and menstrual health, so you're not looking at your client's symptoms in isolation.
Know When Something Is Outside Your Scope
Recognize signs and symptoms that warrant further medical evaluation, understand when and how to refer out, and confidently collaborate with other healthcare professionals while staying within your scope of practice.
Explain Hormone Health in a Way Clients Actually Understand
Take complex physiology and turn it into clear, useful education that helps clients understand what's happening in their bodies, why you're recommending a particular approach, and how the changes they're making connect to their health goals.
Real Stories From Graduates
“Nicole's program is amazing, thorough and comprehensive! WOW, the wisdom, experience and real-life applications that Nicole brings to her program has helped me feel more confident and qualified to have vulnerable conversations with women and to know how best to support them. If you're considering working with women in any way around their hormones, this is a MUST certification and program. I truly believe that every woman should have this knowledge - even if just for herself.”
🇺🇸 — Melinda Cohan
IMH-C · Business Coach & Product Developer
“This program was an immense empowerment for me. I am just beginning the journey of supporting women in their cyclical and hormonal struggles and this program has absolutely all the tools that are needed to provide the knowledge and confidence. I am truly grateful for deciding to start with Nicole as a mentor since the way she teaches complex information is perfect for a beginner like me. This program will forever be my go to resource for empowerment and good and solid information!”
🇺🇸 — Oana Sforoi
Fertility & Hormone Health Coach
Ready to Put It All Into Practice?
12 modules. Ongoing teaching and clinical application. Real client case studies. Condition-specific protocols. A professional certification designed to help you confidently support women with their hormone and menstrual health.
12
Modules
1,000+
Graduates
65+
Countries Represented
IMH-C
Credential
Program Investment
$2,997 USD if paid in full
Or choose one of four payment plans:
$999
3 monthly payments
$527
6 monthly payments
$357
9 monthly payments
$277
12 monthly payments
Plus: a free Mira Hormone Monitor & Practitioner Training bonus ($1,000 value) if you enroll before October 1st.
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