Menopause Society Certified Practitioners in California
519 practitioners have an office in California, and 126 more can see patients here by telehealth. 386 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in San Francisco, Newport Beach and San Diego.
Dr. DiGirolamo is a reproductive endocrinologist who spent a decade as a fertility specialist at Boston IVF before opening this virtual practice. She sees women from their first periods through menopause, with a focus on active women and athletes, and she manages perimenopause, menopause and hormone therapy. Care starts with a 50-minute Zoom consultation after an intake questionnaire, followed by shorter video follow-ups. Visits are video only, and a medical visit is only possible if you are calling in from a state where she is licensed. She is also a CrossFit trainer and nutrition coach, and she builds care on exercise and nutrition first, adding medication as needed. She does not provide primary care and recommends you keep your own primary care doctor.
Jennifer Ellis sees women in perimenopause and menopause at offices in Las Vegas and Encino, and by video for California and Nevada residents. Care starts with a 90-minute visit that includes an expanded hormone lab panel, and she prescribes bioidentical hormone therapy alongside functional medicine testing and lifestyle advice. Patients can pay per visit or join a monthly membership that covers labs and follow-ups, though medications are extra. She also treats low libido, menopausal hair loss and weight, including GLP-1 medication. She is not a primary care or gynecology provider, so you keep your own doctors for Pap smears, mammograms and annual exams. She started as a labor and delivery nurse and has spent more than 20 years doing cosmetic injectables, which she also offers.
Integrative medicine · ND, LAc, FABNO, IFMCP, MSCP
Accepting new patients
Portland, OR · Online only
Self-pay · first visit $450
Dr. Martell runs a solo practice by video for women in Oregon, Washington, California and Arizona. She prescribes estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, and she also prescribes GLP-1 medications for women who want help with weight and metabolic health. New patients start with an hour-long consult and then book shorter follow-ups as needed. She is also trained as a naturopathic oncologist and sees many women during and after cancer treatment. She writes openly about her own Hashimoto's and osteopenia, and thyroid care is a regular part of her work. A free ten-minute phone call is offered before you book.
Kristine Groemping is a family nurse practitioner and former Navy officer who started out in labor and delivery nursing and later worked as a menopause specialist at Evernow. She founded this small cash-pay practice, which treats perimenopause and menopause along with weight management, thyroid conditions and low libido in women. She is openly against pellets, pricey supplements and frequent hormone lab testing, and follows Menopause Society guidelines for estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Most care happens by video, with refills handled by video or secure message, and she also sees patients at an office in southwest Austin. New patients can request a first hormone, testosterone or weight consultation online, and the booking page also offers a free introductory call.
Dr. Morales runs a video-only practice for women in Nevada and California, with a special focus on hormone care for breast and gynecologic cancer survivors. New patients book a one-hour hormone consultation online, and cancer survivors get a longer first visit. Every visit is with Dr. Morales herself, and prescriptions go to the pharmacy you choose. She prefers FDA-approved hormones and also prescribes compounded therapies for certain conditions. Consultations include a review of labs, mammograms and bone scans, and she helps arrange an in-person exam when one is needed. She grew up in Northern Nevada, raised a child as a teenage single mother, and served twelve years in the military.
Takes Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna +8 · first visit $275
Toun Sogbein is a women's health nurse practitioner with Visana Health, a women's health practice that works entirely by video out of Minneapolis. She handles menopause and perimenopause along with the gynecological and sexual health problems that often sit alongside them, and she came to this work from public health clinics and a community health degree. First visits run 45 minutes, and patients stay with the same provider and can message the care team through the patient portal between visits. Visana's menopause care follows protocols written by Dr. Barbara Levy, and a patient can go the hormone route or a non-hormonal one after talking it through. Labs and imaging get ordered near home when they are needed, and optional health coaching covers food and exercise for anyone who wants that support. Many patients reach Visana through an employer or health plan, and the site has a start page where you look up yours.
Dr. Patil-Sisodia runs a direct care practice in Redmond built around a single physician, for women moving through perimenopause and menopause. She trained in internal medicine and endocrinology and is also board certified in obesity medicine, so hormones, metabolism and weight sit with one doctor instead of three. New patients start with a 60 minute consultation that reviews their history, outside records and labs, and that fee covers 30 days of portal follow up for results and treatment changes. She prescribes hormone therapy where it fits and pairs it with nutrition and movement plans, keeping an eye on bone and heart health over the long run. She also offers a standalone second opinion visit that ends in a written report for the patient and their referring doctor, with no prescriptions or lab orders attached. Visits are in the Redmond office or by video for patients physically located in Washington or California, and the practice does not bill insurance.
Taylored Wellness is Dr. Taylor's own practice and she is the only physician in it. Care starts with a long physician evaluation that pulls prior records, labs, family history and genetics into one picture, then sets an order for what to address first. She treats hormone change as one system among several, so the same plan may also take in metabolism, sleep, cardiovascular risk and cognition. Treatment can include prescription medication, hormone therapy, supplements, exercise prescription and intravenous or injectable therapies. She trained and boarded in emergency medicine before moving into integrative and functional medicine, and says the crises she treated there were never sudden. Two six-month precision health programs are described on the site but are still in development, so for now the way in is one private consultation.
Dr. Bernardy is a family physician who runs a direct primary care practice in south Charlotte with one other doctor. Membership covers unlimited office visits of 30 to 60 minutes, direct messaging, and phone or video visits, with same-day or next-day appointments. Menopause care sits inside her general women's health work alongside Pap smears, pelvic exams and birth control. She spent years as national medical director for an employer-based primary care company and taught residents at the University of Colorado. The office has its own pharmacy with medicines at wholesale prices and a physician-supervised weight program. You can book a free video meet and greet with her before joining.
Pacific Menopause is a virtual clinic Dr. Ammerman built to do one thing, which is midlife and menopause care by video. New patient visits run a full 60 minutes, and follow ups are usually booked two to three months later and then spaced out to once a year once symptoms settle. She prescribes FDA approved hormone therapy and testosterone, and she spells out that this means bioidentical hormones such as estradiol and progesterone, which have the same molecular structure as the hormones the body makes. Non hormonal prescriptions are there for women who cannot take hormones or would rather avoid them. Weight is her second focus, and she prescribes both oral and injectable weight loss medication alongside work on nutrition, activity and behaviour. She also owns a gynecology clinic in Kahului, so patients on Maui can choose to see her there in person instead.
Bold Wellness is Torrie Clontz's own virtual practice for women in midlife, run from Las Vegas and open to patients in about fifteen states. Care starts with a two visit intake that includes a wide blood panel drawn at a lab near you and a follow up to go through the results and set a plan. After that most patients stay on a monthly membership that covers prescription changes and messaging with her through the patient portal. Alongside hormone therapy she runs a weight and metabolic program using GLP-1 medication, and she adds functional tests such as gut, cortisol and vaginal microbiome panels when they fit. She is clear that she is not a primary care provider or an OB-GYN, so patients need to keep their own and see her for the hormone and midlife side. Her own hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos diagnosis, which came after a circus career ended in injury, is why she started the practice and she treats that alongside hormones.
Gisele Thissen runs WISH on her own as a fully virtual practice, so every visit happens by video and there is no office to walk into. Every new patient starts with the same long one-on-one assessment, which runs about an hour and covers symptoms, history, medications and previous treatment before anything is decided. She prescribes hormone therapy and women's testosterone where it fits the history, and she treats thyroid problems, metabolic and weight concerns, and sexual health complaints alongside the menopause transition. After the assessment she recommends either a six month course of care called Reclaim or a twelve month concierge year, and neither is required. She spent over a decade as a bedside nurse in obstetrics before moving into private practice, and she sees patients in Spanish as well as English. When an exam, imaging or a specialist is needed she helps arrange it locally and brings the findings back into the plan.
Good Energy is a two-midwife gynecology practice in downtown Batavia, and Sarah is the menopause half of it. She covers perimenopause, menopause and primary ovarian insufficiency, and will use hormone therapy, non-hormonal medication or lifestyle changes depending on what a woman wants. Visits run 30 to 60 minutes, and you can pay per visit or join a membership that bundles an annual visit, a problem visit and a few short follow-ups. Care is in person in Batavia two days a week or by video anywhere in Illinois. Before co-founding this practice she was clinical director of a midwifery group and saw patients virtually for Tia, a women's health primary care company. Trauma-informed care is the guiding idea here, so nothing happens in an exam without being explained first, and the practice keeps a few reduced-rate appointments open each month where you pick the rate yourself with no income paperwork.
Ashley Hooker is the founder and the only provider at Performance Hormone Health, a concierge hormone clinic in Winston-Salem that treats women and men. Women's care runs through a dedicated hormone therapy service that works on estrogen, progesterone and sometimes testosterone, and every plan is built from the patient's own labs, symptoms and goals. The pathway starts with a short introductory consultation, then an intake assessment with baseline labs, then a monthly membership that covers follow-up labs, routine visits and unlimited messaging with the provider. Most of the process can be done remotely by phone or video with labs drawn at a nearby Quest location, and patients local to Winston-Salem can be seen in the office. The practice refuses hormone pellets outright, arguing on its FAQ that pellets cannot be adjusted once inserted and that the professional societies do not recommend them, and it prescribes injectable, transdermal and oral forms instead. It also declines to prescribe GLP-1 weight drugs, and many women's prescriptions are filled through a compounding pharmacy rather than bundled into the membership.
Diana Kumar is a board certified OB-GYN who co-founded Gliss Wellness, a virtual practice built around perimenopause and menopause. All care happens by video and secure messaging, so there is no office to visit. A menopause visit runs about 30 minutes and ends with a plan and prescriptions for an initial three month period, followed by a check-in visit before refills continue for the rest of the year. She prescribes hormone therapy when it fits, can order labs and scans, and sends prescriptions to the patient's own pharmacy. She also sees women for weight counseling and for urgent gynecology problems handled through a short written form. Her stated areas of interest are PCOS, sexual dysfunction, bone health and longevity medicine.
Dr. Satmary is an OB-GYN in Los Angeles with more than twenty years of clinical experience, and she sees Gennev patients by video. Her own areas include chronic pelvic pain, menopause and sexual health, and she holds extra certification in sexual health and lifestyle medicine. She has written book chapters and articles in her field, and she works part time as a medical advisor and reviewer for Healthline Media. Her approach is to listen to your concerns and history first, then go through every treatment option in full. Her page lists licences in Arizona and California, so she sees patients living in those two states. There is no office to visit, and anyone wanting an in-person OB-GYN is sent to a separate network.
She is a urologist with fellowship training in sexual medicine who opened this practice in 2022 because short appointments left no room to hear a patient's whole story. She sees patients of all genders for arousal, orgasm and libido concerns, pelvic and genital pain, recurrent urinary infections and menopause. Vaginal estrogen is the treatment her practice leans on hardest for genitourinary syndrome of menopause, and her office helped get the boxed warning removed from low dose vaginal estrogen. The practice prescribes FDA approved medications and treatments unless one does not exist. New patients join an interest list rather than booking a slot, and the form lets you name a preferred physician from among her four colleagues but not her. Enough patients travel in from other cities that the site keeps a page of nearby hotels and airports.
Tammie Blair sees patients through Midi Health, a virtual women's health clinic that works by video only. She focuses on the hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause, and names weight shifts, poor sleep, mood changes and painful sex as the symptoms those changes drive. A first visit runs about 30 minutes and ends with a written care plan, and follow-ups are shorter check-ins you can book as often as you need. Midi's hormone options are FDA-approved patches, pills, gels, creams and sprays, and a plan can also include vaginal estrogen, non-hormone prescriptions and GLP-1 medication. There is no office to visit, so Midi refers out anything that needs an exam such as a mammogram and asks you to keep seeing your own regular doctors. Her own page on the site has a booking link that starts a new patient with her.
Dr. Milovina is a board-certified ob/gyn who has run a private practice in Beverly Hills since 2002. Menopause care sits alongside her general gynecology and obstetrics work, and she sees women of all ages. For menopause she offers hormone testing, bio-identical hormone therapy, vaginal estrogen, vaginal DHEA and vaginal hyaluronic acid. The office also has a CO2 vaginal laser and a pelvic floor chair for urinary incontinence, so those treatments happen on site. Many of her patients have been with her since she opened, and she sometimes cares for several generations of one family. New patients start by calling the office.
MOOV El Dorado Hills is a physician-run longevity and aesthetics studio, one of nine MOOV locations. Dr. Braxley spent her career in emergency medicine before moving into longevity work, and she says her own health experience is what pushed her to change direction. Her focus is women, and she puts hormone therapy together with weight loss and everyday lifestyle changes. New patients usually start with a short virtual consult that works out which labs to run, and the plan is built from those results. The studio also does skin treatments, heart risk testing and GLP-1 weight programs, so hormone care sits alongside a lot of other services rather than being the whole practice. She is finishing board certification in obesity medicine in late 2026.
Solo virtual practice Stearns founded after a nurse practitioner career that began at a sexual medicine clinic and continued in geriatric primary care. She sees women through perimenopause, menopause and beyond, licensed only in California. New patients start with a free 15-minute discovery call and a long initial consultation with a questionnaire completed beforehand, then choose between stand-alone visits and The Midlife Membership, a concierge model with a four-month foundation phase and direct access between visits. She prescribes only FDA-approved hormone therapy sent to a local retail pharmacy and explains at length why she does not use hormone pellets. She does no in-person exams or procedures and works alongside a patient's primary care and gynecology providers. Beyond core menopause care she offers osteoporosis management and cancer-informed menopause care for women with a history of breast or gynecologic cancer.
Dr. Hoang runs a small solo gynecology practice in San Jose and has cared for women in the South Bay for more than twelve years. Her menopause program starts with a long first conversation about symptoms, health history, hormones and lifestyle. She offers hormone therapy when it fits, along with non-hormonal medicines, supplements and help with sleep and stress. She is also board certified in obesity medicine, so weight gain and metabolic health in midlife get real attention, and she runs a separate physician-led weight program that can include GLP-1 medicines. Patients can reach the office by phone or text between visits, and same-day or same-week appointments are often available. Many long-time patients first saw her for routine gynecology or pregnancy care.
Adams directs Stanford's menopause program and sees patients at the gynecology clinic in Palo Alto. The program offers in person consults, video consults, and video group visits. She is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and in lifestyle medicine, so diet, exercise and sleep come up alongside hormone therapy. Before Stanford she spent 14 years as residency program director at OHSU in Oregon, where she also ran the menopause and sexual medicine program. She hosts the program's podcast and gave a TEDx talk called Sleep, Sex, and Menopausal Zest. The program writes to its patients about practical problems like the estradiol patch shortage.
Dr. Bassett is an integrative and functional medicine physician who spent over 15 years in emergency medicine before opening this practice. Care starts with a 90-minute assessment, in person in Walnut Creek or by video, followed by a health coach visit. Patients who are a good fit can join a 12-month membership with regular visits and direct messaging. She is a consultant only and patients must keep their own primary care doctor.
