Menopause Society Certified Practitioners in California
516 practitioners have an office in California, and 125 more can see patients here by telehealth. 388 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in San Francisco, Newport Beach and San Diego.
Dr. Meagan runs a virtual-only menopause practice for women who live in California. She turned to perimenopause care after nearly 20 years in medicine, when more and more patients, friends and family kept asking her about it. Care starts with an hour-long video visit where she goes over your symptoms, past care and prescriptions, then sets a plan with follow-up visits to adjust it. She prescribes hormone therapy in whatever form you prefer. She also offers weight care with DEXA scans and GLP-1 medication, plus ketamine and psychedelic medicine for sleep, anxiety and mood. She does not act as your primary doctor or gynecologist, so you still need your own for exams and pap smears.
Dr. Coe is a UCLA-trained gynecologist and has been a Menopause Society certified practitioner since 2012. Menopause care here means systemic and vaginal hormone therapy, with lifestyle changes, pelvic floor physical therapy and psychological support added when they fit. She also does general gynecology, sexual health and preventive primary care, and she is trained in vulvoscopy for vulvar conditions like vulvodynia. She stepped back from practice for years to look after her family, living in Montana and London, and finished a master's in health policy before reopening her Newport Beach office. Visits can be in the office or by phone or video, and new patients request an appointment through the office and get portal access before the first visit.
Dr. Beddow runs a solo OB/GYN office in San Mateo and has been practicing in the Bay Area for over two decades. She was on faculty at Stanford before returning to private practice. The office covers the full range of obstetrics and gynecology, so menopause and hormone evaluation sits alongside pregnancy care and surgical gyn work rather than being the whole practice. She is a mother of twins herself and says that gives her a particular bond with other twin mothers. New patients book online and the office confirms the appointment the next business day. Video visits appear on her schedule for established patients only, so a first appointment means going in.
Dr. O'Neill is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who also holds the Menopause Society's NCMP certificate. Menopause is one of several services at her small practice, alongside general gynecology, fertility, obstetrics and acupuncture. This is a general ob-gyn office, not a menopause-only clinic, and she admits to two San Jose hospitals for surgery and deliveries. The office is in a historic house in Campbell, and new patients fill out a history questionnaire before the first visit. Appointments are booked through an online scheduling page. The site does not say which menopause treatments she prescribes.
Trinitas is a small primary care practice for the whole family, and Dr. Yanni is its physician. She is board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, so one doctor can see a mother and her children. Menopause care sits inside the women's health visit, with hormone therapy as one of the options. She writes that she has been a cancer patient herself, and that it taught her how much being listened to matters. The practice bills insurance as a regular office, and an optional concierge membership for PPO patients adds longer visits and same-day or next-day access. Video visits are listed only as a concierge perk and only within California.
Sarah Norris works in the Women's Health department at Fairchild Medical Clinic, the outpatient arm of a small nonprofit community hospital in Yreka, in far northern California. Her own provider page names menopause management as one of her areas, alongside pregnancy, cervical and breast cancer screening, contraception and sexual health, so menopause care sits inside a general women's health practice rather than being the whole of it. She came to nursing after working as a birth doula and childbirth educator in the Bay Area, and she started practicing in 2012. Before moving to Yreka in 2021 she served with the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Reservation and then at Pine Ridge in South Dakota. New patients start by signing up for the hospital patient portal or by calling the clinic. The site does not describe what her menopause visits involve or which treatments she uses.
Lim Women's and Urologic Health is a small virtual practice run by Dr. Lim out of Santa Cruz. Her site says she is the first and only fellowship trained female urologist and urogynecologist in Santa Cruz County. Care is built around longer visits and direct contact with her instead of a packed clinic schedule. The focus is menopause and hormonal health, recurrent urinary tract infections, vaginal and pelvic health, and preventive urologic care. She says plainly that the practice is not for emergencies or for anything that needs an in person exam right away. The practice has not opened for booking yet, and new patients join a waitlist.
Dr. Correia is a board-certified OB-GYN who runs a small private clinic that also sees men and offers primary care, weight loss and longevity medicine. Menopause care is one of several services, with its own program built around bioidentical hormones in cream, patch and oral forms. A first visit starts with a hormone panel and a review of symptoms and history. Follow-up labs come about six to eight weeks later, and doses are rechecked every three to six months. The clinic does not take insurance and does not offer online booking, so new patients call to schedule. Visits can be in the Pismo Beach office or by video, and a nurse practitioner also sees patients there on Thursdays.
Millie is a Berkeley and San Jose women's health clinic that grew out of maternity care and now runs a perimenopause and menopause service open to anyone, not only its pregnancy patients. Erin is a family nurse practitioner with more than ten years in primary care and women's health, and she is one of a handful of clinicians at the Berkeley office you can pick by name when you book a menopause evaluation. She also sees women through Midi Health for menopause and midlife care, and she has done extra training in women's integrative medicine. Most menopause visits can be done by video, and you come into the Berkeley office when lab work, imaging or an exam is needed. The clinic was started by a patient who landed in the ER with postpartum preeclampsia and the midwife she called afterwards to ask what had gone wrong.
Takes Medicaid managed care, Covered California +3
Molly Jacobs is one of four clinicians in Open Door Gynecology, the gynecology service that runs out of the Plaza clinic in Arcata. That service treats menopause symptoms and prescribes hormone therapy, and it also handles contraception, heavy or irregular periods, pelvic pain, prolapse and PCOS. Open Door is a nonprofit community health center network on California's North Coast, so new patients start by calling its Member Services team rather than booking online. Income is checked at the visit for a sliding fee discount, and it applies even to patients who have insurance, which is part of why no fee list is published. Jacobs is also on the Plaza clinic's pregnancy and delivery panels, and the clinic runs its own lab with drop-in hours. Visits can be done by video through the patient portal, and providers can order tests and prescribe medication during a video visit.
Dr. Dombo is a board-certified OB-GYN who is going through the menopausal transition herself. She says starting hormone therapy and changing her nutrition and supplements took her from exhaustion and poor sleep back to enjoying life, and that is why she does this work. She trained in the early 2000s, when hormone therapy was widely feared, and now calls it the gold standard for symptom relief. The first visit runs 60 minutes and covers medical and gynecologic history, medications, nutrition and exercise, then a personal treatment plan. The visit also lists a nutritionist assessment, an exercise plan and mindset coaching, and follow-ups run 25 minutes. She writes publicly about why menopause hits Black women harder and how often they face barriers to care.
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.
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Churn Creek Healthcare is a tribal health clinic in Redding and part of the Redding Rancheria Tribal Health System, and Cooper is one of its family practice clinicians. It opened in 2015 and serves Native American and non-Native patients across Shasta County and Trinity County. Care runs as ordinary family practice with same-day urgent care alongside it, and the clinic stays open into the early evening on weekdays. Getting in works differently from most practices. A new patient has to be assigned to this clinic as their primary clinic by their health plan before the clinic can take them, so the front desk is not where you start. The clinic publishes nothing about menopause or hormone care and Cooper has no bio on the site, so what she does for midlife patients is not described anywhere.
This is a small concierge practice built around long, unhurried visits and a low number of patients. Dr. Greenwald focuses on perimenopause and menopause, hormone therapy and sexual health. She trained at UCSF, built her practice with Stanford Health Care, still teaches there and works on the obstetrics side at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center several days a month. Care runs through a membership, and visits can be in person or by video. She is not taking new patients right now. Two colleagues in the same practice, Dr. Nazaneen Homaifar and Dr. Sarah Isquick, are certified menopause providers and are taking new members.
Dana is a nurse midwife and a Santa Cruz native. After about a decade in corporate medicine she started Nurture to offer a more personal kind of women's care, with fertility, perimenopause and menopause as a focus. Menopause visits start with a symptom assessment and hormone lab testing. Treatment can include bioidentical hormone therapy, along with diet, activity and breathwork suggestions. She has extra training in female sexual medicine and hereditary cancer genetics, and libido is a named part of her menopause care. Most contact between visits runs through the practice's messaging portal, and visits can be in person or by video.
Dr. Queen trained in emergency medicine and spent about twenty years in Bay Area hospitals before opening her own concierge practice. Menopause care runs as a six or twelve month membership with an evaluation, follow-up visits, secure messaging and an in-office bone density ultrasound scan. She prescribes hormone therapy when it fits and pairs it with functional medicine and nutrition, and two nutritionists work with the practice. GLP-1 weight medication can be part of the plan for women whose metabolism shifted in midlife. The practice does not bill insurance but gives free superbills for out-of-network claims. Visits can be in person in Mill Valley or by video.
Dr. Hannon is an OB-GYN who runs this Inner Richmond practice with her father, Dr. Ziyad Hannon, and a nurse practitioner who is also a Menopause Society certified practitioner. The practice describes its care as trauma-informed, and Dr. Hannon is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ patients, including gender-affirming surgery. For menopause they prescribe patches, gels, pills and vaginal estrogen, with micronized progesterone, and they also offer nonhormonal options such as Veozah. Testosterone and other libido medications are available when low desire is the main concern. Labs are used only when they are clinically needed. Visits are in person, and new patients can request an appointment online or by phone.
Mary Newberry Davis is a certified nurse midwife at MarinHealth OB/GYN in Greenbrae, a MarinHealth Medical Network clinic. She has done midwifery and women's health work in the Bay Area for over twenty years and has been at MarinHealth since 2011. Most of her practice is birth care and gynecological care across the lifespan, and her bio says she also helps midlife patients work through the menopause transition with evidence-based information. She trained at UCSF and is a NARM Informed Professional, so she pays attention to how hard life experiences affect health, and she looks for the cause of a problem rather than treating symptoms alone. Visits happen in person at the Greenbrae office or by video, and the clinic publishes a new-patient registration form and an online appointment request. MarinHealth also runs a separate menopause clinic under another physician, and she is not on that team, so menopause care with her happens inside the regular OB/GYN practice.
West Coast OB/GYN is a group practice with offices in San Diego, Carlsbad and La Mesa, and Dr. French is one of the providers who work only out of the La Mesa office. The group does full obstetric and gynecologic care, and its gynecology list includes menopause and hormone replacement therapy. Her own bio says she follows women from adolescence through childbirth to menopause and beyond, and that she is drawn to minimally invasive surgery. She came to women's health first as a counselor for rape and domestic violence survivors and for women with eating disorders, then decided to go to medical school. New patients download registration and history forms from the site and send them in ahead of the visit. The practice keeps some evening hours and draws blood in the office.
WesternU Health is the teaching clinic of Western University of Health Sciences, and its Pomona center is where she works as a board certified family physician. Primary care there sits alongside specialty clinics in endocrinology, rheumatology and osteopathic manipulative medicine. Appointments run longer than at most offices because students and interns train there under supervision, and the clinic says that extra time is so patients can be heard. New patients fill out a registration form online or bring it to their first visit, and results and messages run through the OCHIN patient portal. Most of her own work now is medical education, as associate dean of clinical education at the osteopathic college and director of its health justice and equity track.
Dr. Howe is a board certified OB/GYN at a small Newport Beach practice she runs with a second OB/GYN and several physician assistants. The practice covers the full span of gynecology, and perimenopause and menopause care sit alongside hormone testing, osteoporosis and bladder problems. Her particular interest is chronic pelvic pain, which she researched at UCLA and treats both medically and surgically. Before moving to Orange County she chaired an OB/GYN department in Ventura County and built a clinic there that included menopause management. She speaks Spanish. Visits are in the office and billed through insurance, and patients without insurance pay at the time of service.
Brooke Anderson is a family nurse practitioner at a Temecula clinic that is mostly chiropractic, spinal decompression and regenerative medicine. Her own page says she manages perimenopause and menopause, and that treatment can include bioidentical hormone therapy, hormone testing and non-hormonal options. She became a nurse practitioner in 2024 after more than 20 years in healthcare. A first visit is a consultation of 60 to 90 minutes with a full history and exams or lab work. The clinic takes a functional medicine approach and says it aims to help people without surgery or prescription drugs. The site describes office visits only.
Chun co-founded this two-doctor gynecology practice in Laurel Village and still sees patients there. She says what drew her to the field is following one woman through her whole life, from childhood through the reproductive years and into postmenopause, and her practice runs that broad. Care is in person at the California Street office, and new patients start by phone and by filling in the registration and gynecology intake forms the site posts. The practice takes a firm line on compounded bioidentical hormones, saying the doses are not regulated so a woman may not get a consistent amount, and it prefers the few bioidentical hormones made by regulated manufacturers. For dryness and painful sex the office prescribes topical estrogen as a ring, a tablet or a cream. Both doctors speak Mandarin and Cantonese, and the second office at Daniel Burnham Court has closed so everything now runs out of Laurel Village.
Dafna Trites is an ob-gyn at Facey Medical Group's Tarzana ob-gyn office, part of the Providence system. Her own profile lists a full ob-gyn scope, from pregnancy and delivery through menopause, urinary incontinence and pelvic prolapse surgery, so this is a general ob-gyn practice rather than a menopause clinic. She sees adults and older adults and speaks Spanish as well as English. New patients can book either an office visit or a video visit with her. Ongoing care runs through the Providence MyChart portal, where you message your care team, book visits and request refills. Reviews on her own profile mention long waits for a routine appointment.
