Here's What We're Covering

Your client built her whole life on lists, routines, and willpower... and somewhere in her late 30s or early 40s, it stopped working.

She’s convinced she’s burning out, losing her edge, maybe even losing her mind. Her labs look “fine.” She’s been handed antidepressants, generic stress-management advice or time blocking tips, and a shrug.

Here's what you need to help her understand: estrogen helps regulate dopamine... and ADHD is a dopamine-regulation condition. So when perimenopause pulls estrogen, the ADHD brain loses the buffer that quietly held it together for 30 years. The coping systems collapse. The focus goes. And it gets misread as anxiety, burnout, or “just perimenopause” - for years.

In one 2025 study, 54% of women with ADHD reported debilitating perimenopause symptoms, versus about a third of women without. Their severe symptoms peaked nearly a decade earlier,.between the ages of 35 and 39. Meanwhile, adult ADHD diagnoses nearly doubled in the past five years, fastest among women in exactly this age range.

These women are already in your practice. This training teaches you to better see them.

In 90 minutes, you’ll walk away with:

• The estrogen–dopamine mechanism that makes perimenopause a different event entirely for a woman with ADHD
• Why lifelong coping strategies “suddenly” fail around age 40 - and how to spot a late unmasking vs. true decline
• The symptom patterns that get misfiled as anxiety, depression, or "just needing HRT"
• How to raise it with a client and reframe it so she feels understood, not managed
• Where this fits in your scope, and where it doesn’t

Who it’s for: functional and integrative practitioners, health and hormone coaches, and clinicians working with women 35+. If that’s you, this is built for you.