As I prepare to launch The ADHD and Menopause Coach on 20th April, I’ve been reflecting on why this feels so important. Clinically, we are often very focused on the assessment and diagnosis: identifying symptoms, making a formulation, and initiating treatment. But what has become increasingly clear to me is that for many women, the most difficult part is not the diagnosis itself, it really is everything that comes after.
There is a significant gap I think of as the “in-between space”, and it is often the part in medicine that is least well supported. It’s the time between appointments, between medication adjustments, between starting HRT and wondering if it is helping, between moments of doing better and then suddenly feeling like everything is hard again. It is where women are trying to implement changes, understand themselves, navigate work, relationships, motherhood, identity, hormones, and make sense of their diagnosis or symptoms. I really believe that space can feel deeply isolating, particularly for women with ADHD, and even more so when perimenopause or menopause is part of the picture too.
The community I’m building is intended to sit in that gap. Not as a replacement for clinical care, but as a layer of ongoing support. It feels especially important to me not only as a doctor, but as a perimenopausal woman on HRT with ADHD myself. I’m passionate that it will be somewhere women can feel less alone in the day-to-day reality of ADHD, perimenopause and menopause – or the very common overlap between them. A space for shared experiences, practical strategies, education, and reassurance that the challenges we are facing are normal, and are certainly not a personal failing. There is something incredibly powerful in hearing “me too” from women who genuinely understand.
ADHD is lived continuously. Perimenopause and menopause are not single appointments, they are experiences women are often trying to navigate whilst still showing up for everyone and everything else in their lives. Supporting women should not end at the point of diagnosis, treatment, or prescription. It should extend into how they actually function, cope, and feel in their daily lives. This community is bridging that gap in a way that feels accessible, supportive, and sustainable.
Ultimately, this has come from listening to women. Hearing the same themes repeatedly: “I thought diagnosis would fix it,” “I still feel stuck,” “I don’t know what to do next,” and “why does it feel like everything has become harder all at once?”
So if you’re feeling overwhelmed by it all, trying to make sense of ADHD, hormones, or both, and finding yourself still quietly struggling despite holding so much together, this space is for you.
If you’re looking for understanding, connection, and practical support from women who truly get it, I would love to welcome you into the community.
I look forward to meeting you there.
Dr Jenni x