MoonPhase Wellness
Women’s Mental Health Across the Reproductive Lifespan
Women’s Mental Health · Menopause Education & Consultation · Women’s Health & Wellness Education · Women’s Rites of Passage
Mood, anxiety, sleep, cognition, sexual health, and even medication response can shift alongside reproductive and hormonal change.
MoonPhase brings clinical knowledge, pattern recognition, and women’s lived experience into the same conversation—so what has been difficult to name can become clearer.
The Four MoonPhase Pathways
You do not need to arrive knowing whether the change is hormonal, psychiatric, medical, medication-related, or part of a larger life transition. MoonPhase helps make the pattern more visible.
MoonPhase offers different pathways depending on what you need.
Women’s Mental Health
Menopause Mapping, Education & Consultation
Women’s Whole Health & Wellness Education
Women’s Rites of Passage
ABOUT
Women’s Mental Health Is the Center of This Work
MoonPhase was founded by Michele Whitaker, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with more than three decades of experience in behavioral health.
Her clinical work brings together psychiatric care, reproductive psychiatry, menopause-informed mental health, integrative wellness, and a longstanding interest in the ways women experience health across the lifespan.
Her broader work also includes professional education, public advocacy, and efforts to strengthen how women’s mental, reproductive, and sexual health are understood across clinical, community, and policy settings, aand work that honors the importance of intentionally marking significant life transitions.
Women Often Notice the Shift Before They Have Language for It
Changes in mood, sleep, cognition, desire, energy, and daily functioning do not always arrive separately—or announce where they belong.
A woman may know that something has changed without knowing whether the next conversation should begin in psychiatry, menopause care, primary care, gynecology, or a broader wellness setting.
MoonPhase begins with the pattern: what changed, when it changed, what may be shaping your experience, and what may still be waiting to be discovered.
The MoonPhase Approach
Women’s mental health can be influenced by more than diagnosis alone.
At MoonPhase, we consider the intersections among psychiatric history, reproductive stage, hormonal change, sleep, physical health, medications, cognition, sexuality, relationships, nutrition, and lived circumstances.
MoonPhase’s work also includes advancing broader understanding of women’s mental, reproductive, and sexual health through education, public discourse, and advocacy.
Not every symptom is hormonal.
Not every change is psychiatric.
Clarity comes from understanding what is connected, what is distinct, and what the pattern reveals.
Women's Mental Health
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Menopause Mapping, Education & Consultation
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Women's Health & Wellness
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Women's Rites of Passage
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Women's Mental Health · Menopause Mapping, Education & Consultation · Women's Health & Wellness · Women's Rites of Passage ·
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Women's Mental Health Care
Integrative Psychiatry
For Massachusetts women seeking diagnostic clarification, medication management, and ongoing psychiatric care through a reproductive and whole-person lens.
Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and ongoing care through a menopause-informed and integrative lens. Services may include diagnostic clarification, medication management, supportive interventions, and collaboration with your healthcare team.
For women located in Massachusetts.
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Menopause Mapping, Education & Consultation
Understand the changes. See the pattern. Prepare for what comes next.
Nurse-led consultation and education to help women map symptoms, timing, patterns, questions, and next steps across the menopause transition.
For women seeking time to understand how reproductive transition may intersect with mood, sleep, cognition, energy, libido, medication response, and daily functioning.
These consultations help organize your history, identify meaningful patterns, prepare questions, and consider what further evaluation or support may be helpful.
Available virtually in states where MoonPhase is authorized to provide registered nursing services.
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Women's Whole Health & Wellness
Because women’s health is larger than menopause alone.
Education exploring the relationship between mental health, sleep, stress, nutrition, sexual health, reproductive stage, nervous-system health, and the changing demands of a woman’s life.
For women who are not seeking psychiatric care and whose questions are not limited to menopause.
Consultations may explore sleep, energy, sexual wellbeing, preventive health, healthy aging, lifestyle patterns, reproductive-health education, and preparation for conversations with healthcare professionals.
Available virtually in states where MoonPhase is authorized to provide registered nursing services.
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Women's Rites of Passage
There are transitions medicine can describe -and transitions women experience more deeply.
Educational programs, conversations, workshops, and experiences exploring the transitions that shape women’s lives across the lifespan.
Guided, nonclinical experiences for women moving through meaningful life transitions.
These could include menopause, motherhood, loss, caregiving, divorce, retirement, identity shifts, creative emergence, relationship change, aging, or the closing and beginning of significant life chapters.
This pathway is distinct from therapy, psychiatric treatment, and medical care. It offers facilitated reflection, ritual, meaning-making, and intentional support through transition.
Available virtually, with select in-person offerings in New England.
WHAT SETS US APART
We Ask a Different Set of Questions
A psychiatric symptom rarely exists in isolation.
At MoonPhase, we look not only at what you are experiencing, but also:
When did it change?
Is there a cyclical pattern?
Where are you in your reproductive life?
What happened to sleep?
Has cognition or attention changed?
Has sexual desire or response changed?
Does medication feel different?
What else is happening medically, relationally, emotionally, or in your daily life?
The goal is not to assume hormones are the answer. It is to make sure reproductive and hormonal change is not missing from the question.
What You Can Expect
MoonPhase offers a thoughtful, clearly defined experience shaped around the service you choose.
You can expect careful listening, direct communication, respect for complexity, and transparency about what MoonPhase can provide—and when another clinician, service, or level of care may be a better fit.
Respect for the Woman’s Knowing
Your observations, lived experience, and sense that something has changed are treated as meaningful parts of the picture—not dismissed as secondary to a diagnosis, test result, or checklist.
The Pattern Comes First
We look across timing, symptoms, reproductive stage, health history, medication response, relationships, and daily functioning before drawing conclusions.
Clarity That Travels With You
MoonPhase offers language, education, and thoughtful next steps you can carry into future healthcare conversations.
Ready to Begin?
MoonPhase Wellness offers thoughtful attention, informed guidance, and more than one way to begin.
Whether you are seeking psychiatric care, menopause education, women’s wellness support, or a meaningful rite of passage, start with what you have noticed and what you are hoping to understand.