Beth Servaites runs a small solo menopause practice on the Palos Verdes Peninsula for women in perimenopause and menopause. She spent years as a nurse in emergency departments and ICUs, and says watching women's symptoms get brushed off there is what led her to menopause care. New patients start with a detailed intake covering history, symptoms, medications and labs, followed by regular follow-up visits. She prescribes estrogen and progesterone, adds testosterone where it fits, and walks through both bioidentical and conventional options. Her style centers on explaining the research, including its limits, and leaving the final choice to the patient.
Michelle Dahle runs a small solo menopause practice in Palos Verdes Estates and also sees patients by video. Care starts with a consultation covering history, lifestyle and symptoms, then a follow-up three to six weeks later to adjust treatment, then a yearly check-in that looks at bone and heart health. She prescribes estrogen and progesterone in several forms, low-dose testosterone for low libido, and non-hormonal medicines for women who can't or don't want to use hormones. Her site argues that age alone shouldn't rule out hormone therapy after 60. She also offers an estriol face cream for midlife skin changes. Her background before nursing was a psychology degree, and she says that shapes how she thinks about mood and menopause.
Nancy Siskowic is a nurse practitioner who has focused on perimenopause and menopause since the early 1990s, working on her own out of a single office. She prescribes estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, and a hormone consult also covers nutrition, supplements, exercise, stress and osteoporosis prevention. She is a board certified psych and mental health nurse practitioner as well as a licensed psychotherapist, so she treats anxiety and depression and prescribes those medications herself. Her own writing makes a strong case for staying on hormone therapy long term, prefers the patch and other transdermal forms over pills, and rejects the lowest dose for the shortest time in favor of the lowest effective dose. She writes openly about her own breast cancer, which is the subject of her book. The office sees patients on Tuesdays by appointment only and you call to schedule rather than booking online.
Erica Buck is an acute care nurse practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in cardiology. She is also a certified diabetes educator and holds a plant-based nutrition certification. She sees patients at a small office in Palos Verdes Estates on Mondays and Thursdays, with other times on request, and phone consultations are available. The first visit is a full hour to go over symptoms and talk through starting hormone therapy. A follow-up about three weeks later reviews how treatment is going and adjusts it, and after that she holds a yearly menopause check-up. Intake forms are on her website to fill in before the visit.
