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.
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.
This is a solo OB-GYN office in Beverly Hills where menopause care sits alongside general gynecology and obstetrics. He sees women from young adulthood through later life, so a patient can stay with one doctor as her needs change. The first visit covers history, symptoms, weight, blood pressure, a physical exam and lab work. Hormone therapy is designed for each patient and can be a pill, patch, lotion, spray, injection, vaginal tablet or ring, or a pellet placed under the skin. He pairs it with diet and exercise counseling and refers out when needed. He sits on the Medical Executive Committee at Cedars-Sinai, where he trained.
Bloom Wellness MD is Dr. Griffin's own integrative practice in Roseville, built around perimenopause and menopause care. She spent 10 years in family medicine and 11 years in integrative and functional medicine at Sutter Health before opening it, and she is fellowship trained at the University of Arizona's Andrew Weil Center. Her first choice for hormone therapy is FDA-approved bioidentical products such as estradiol patches, gels, sprays and rings, and she turns to compounded hormones only when a commercial product cannot meet a patient's dosing or ingredient needs. The practice does not provide primary care or urgent care, so you need to keep your own primary care physician. New patients can book a free 15-minute call first, and the initial visit runs a full hour. A certified health coach is available for optional one-on-one sessions on nutrition and elimination diets.
Barbara Dougherty is a nurse practitioner at YoungerMeMD, a hormone and longevity practice in Conshohocken. The monthly membership is charged on top of the cost of treatment and does not include medication. The intake fee covers baseline lab work, which is drawn at Quest only and needs 8 to 12 hours of fasting. Beyond hormone care the practice also offers peptides, low dose naltrexone and rapamycin.
Dr. Cantor is a family physician in the primary care division at the OHSU Center for Women's Health in Portland. She sees women and girls from age 12 onward and provides general primary care alongside menopause care. Her OHSU profile lists women's health and menopause as her clinical focus, and she became a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner in 2024. The clinic treats menopause symptoms as part of primary care and can refer patients to a separate menopause specialty clinic at the same center. OHSU describes hormone therapy given as pills, patches, gels, sprays or vaginal forms, and non-hormonal options such as SERMs and low dose antidepressants. She is also a senior investigator at the OHSU evidence based practice center, where her reviews have informed national women's health guidelines.
Rachel Frankenthal is a physician assistant in UCLA Health's gynecologic oncology practice in Westwood, and she also sees patients at the Westlake Village OBGYN office. Most of her work is with women who have gynecologic cancers or a high inherited risk of them. She started UCLA's menopause clinic for gynecologic cancer survivors and is the cancer survivorship provider for the health system's menopause program. For survivors pushed into early menopause by treatment, the program says it goes through both hormonal and non-hormonal options alongside lifestyle changes. She is also a certified yoga and pilates instructor, and she teaches the free weekly online yoga and meditation class for gynecologic cancer survivors. New patients start with a request-an-appointment form on her UCLA profile.
Dr. Cohen is an OB-GYN with Sutter East Bay Medical Group, seeing patients at the Adeline Care Center in Berkeley and at a second office in Richmond. Her own philosophy of care names symptoms of menopause along with abnormal bleeding, fibroids, endometriosis and pregnancy care, so menopause sits inside a full obstetrics and gynecology practice rather than a dedicated menopause clinic. She directs the OB-GYN residency program at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and is board certified in obesity medicine as well as obstetrics and gynecology, which is worth knowing if weight is part of what you want help with. Unusually for this health system, her own page publishes the list of plans she takes. Video visits are offered to existing patients only, so a first appointment has to be in person.
Dr. Sanserino is a Stanford gynecologist who directs its gynecology survivorship and high-risk program. Much of her work is with women who have had cancer or carry a BRCA gene, including menopause brought on early by chemotherapy or surgery. She is used to managing menopause symptoms in women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer, where estrogen may not be safe, and to treating vaginal and bladder symptoms caused by tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors. She also sees women for ordinary perimenopause and menopause through Stanford's Menopause and Healthy Aging Program, along with sexual health concerns. She speaks fluent Spanish. Visits are at the Stanford gynecology clinic in Palo Alto and are booked through Stanford Health Care.
Dr. Meserve is an internist who started Framework Health and has practiced in Newport Beach since 2004. It is a small concierge practice, and menopause care is part of the general membership rather than a separate program. She treats the effects of estrogen loss in women and low testosterone in men, and she frames her work around healthy aging, with sleep, heart risk and memory alongside hormones. Hormone therapy is used where it fits and alternatives where it does not. New patients start with a free 15 minute phone call. She sees patients in the Fashion Island office or by video, and her longtime office manager has worked with her since 2008.
Dr. Hillman is an integrative and functional medicine physician at Sutter's Pacific Heights Care Center in San Francisco. She sees adults and works on hormone imbalances along with thyroid and adrenal problems, perimenopause and menopause, food sensitivities, digestive issues and cardiometabolic health. Her own page says she has special interest or training in bio-identical hormone balancing and in specialty laboratory testing meant to reveal problems that standard testing misses. She looks for the underlying cause of symptoms rather than treating them one at a time. She has practiced meditation for 30 years in a tradition that combines mindfulness and compassion, and she offers it to patients who want it. Her panel is closed right now, and the video visits she offers are for existing patients only.
Hung is an internal medicine doctor at Stanford's primary care clinic in Santa Clara, where she sees perimenopausal and menopausal patients in PeriWell, a clinic she runs inside the practice. She is the Director of Women's Health for Stanford's primary care department and co-directs the university's annual menopause conference for clinicians. Alongside menopause care she works on bone health and midlife weight gain, and she leads group visits every other month on preventing and treating osteoporosis. The clinic keeps a care coordinator in the room during each visit to take notes and handle referrals afterwards, and it has a dietitian, pharmacist, physical therapist and behavioral health clinician onsite. New patients can book a first appointment online, and video and phone visits are offered. She speaks Mandarin as well as English.
Sarah Noble is a family nurse practitioner who works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of Sutter East Bay Medical Group. She sees patients at two East Bay offices, one in Brentwood and one in Antioch, on weekdays. New patients can book online through My Health Online, Sutter's patient portal, which is also how appointments and messages are handled afterwards. Video visits are open only to people who are already her patients, so a first appointment has to be in person. Sutter's provider page carries no bio and does not say which conditions she treats or whether she prescribes hormone therapy.
She practices in the obstetrics and gynecology group at Sansum Medical Group Santa Barbara, which is part of Sutter Health. Her office is the Pueblo Care Complex on West Pueblo Street, open weekdays from 7am to 6pm and closed on weekends. Her work centers on perimenopause and menopause, with sexual health and urogenital health alongside it. She trained at Georgetown University School of Nursing. Her panel is closed right now, and the only route the group shows is the My Health Online portal for women who have already seen her. Visits are in person at that one office, and the group publishes nothing about how a first appointment runs or what she prescribes.
Dandamudi practices at Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group's East Santa Clara Care Center and sees adults only. Most of her listed work is general internal medicine, things like annual physicals, blood pressure and diabetes, with menopause care alongside it. She is board certified in obesity medicine, and that shapes what she says she focuses on in menopause. Her stated interests are weight gain, sexual dysfunction, bone health, and menopause care for cancer survivors. Her panel is closed to new patients, and the people she already sees schedule visits through Sutter's My Health Online portal, where video visits are an option. She writes that she wants to know patients as a whole person and to build long term relationships rather than fix one problem at a time.
Dr. Maayah is an OB-GYN with Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group and sees patients at the Mills-Peninsula Family Birth Center in Burlingame and at a second office in Daly City. Her practice covers all of women's health, from a teenager's first periods through pregnancy and childbirth and on into perimenopause and menopause. She names hormone therapy, bioidentical hormones and post-menopausal treatment among what she does, and a large share of her listed work is gynecologic surgery. Minimally invasive surgery is her stated professional interest, because she wants women back to their usual routine with little recovery time. Visits are in person only, and a new patient starts by calling the office rather than booking online. She speaks fluent Hindi and Urdu along with conversational Spanish, and she is a long distance runner outside of work.
Dr. de Edwards is a general obstetrician-gynecologist who says she has practiced gynecology since 1983. Menopause management and female sexuality are the two areas she names as her subspecialties. She also does routine gynecology and pregnancy care with delivery, so this is not a menopause-only office. It is her own small practice in the Gladstone Medical Park building in Pittsburg. Her site does not say which menopause treatments she prescribes. She writes short blog posts on menopause symptoms and on early menopause after chemotherapy, radiation or removal of the ovaries.
Dr. Johansen runs a small concierge internal medicine practice in Palo Alto and limits how many members she takes. Members pay a recurring fee and can reach her directly by cell, email or text at any hour. Same-day visits happen in the office, virtually or at home. Menopause care sits inside her general primary care and preventive work, and the site describes preventive care for women through the menopausal transition and beyond. She spent more than twelve years on the Stanford medicine faculty. The site does not say which hormone treatments she prescribes.
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.
