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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.
Tracie Smith is a therapist at LynLake Centers for WellBeing, a large Twin Cities group practice that offers counseling, psychiatric medication management, nutrition therapy and acupuncture. She sees adults and works by telehealth and out of one of the practice's Minneapolis offices. Perimenopause and menopause are listed as areas of special interest, along with grief, identity and the strain of caring for others in midlife. Her approach draws on mindfulness, narrative, solution focused and cognitive behavioral work. She came to social work after a corporate career and holds an MBA alongside her MSW. She is practicing under the supervision of a licensed clinical social worker while she finishes her own licensure, and her profile says she is not accepting new clients.
Jennifer Nelson is one of more than twenty primary care providers at Herself Health, a Minnesota group built for women in midlife and later life. She sees patients at the Crystal clinic and gives her focus as women's health and the care of older adults. For women under 65 the practice runs on a paid membership that buys longer visits and support for menopause and perimenopause, including help with hot flashes, sleep and mood. Women on Medicare get the same care without the membership fee. First visits are a full hour, and virtual visits are available for new and returning patients. Nelson chose nursing because of a nurse practitioner she saw when she was young, and her page says she wants patients in a calm setting where they feel seen and free of judgment.
Dr. Bozicevich, who goes by Roxie, is an OB/GYN at Women's Health Consultants, a large gynecology and obstetrics group in the Twin Cities. She has been with the group since 2001 and lists perimenopause and menopause among her clinical interests. The group offers menopause care as part of its preventive care, including hormone therapy, and plans treatment around each woman's symptoms. She also does general gynecology, contraception and obstetrics, so she can be a long-term gynecologist and not only a menopause consult. She says she values long relationships with patients and wants to understand their family, work and worries. Appointments are made by phone, and the group has four clinics around Minneapolis, Richfield and Plymouth.
