Your body feels unfamiliar, your mood unpredictable, and your capacity to buffer stress has fundamentally changed. You feel unseen by traditional wellness paths that offer supplements and breathing exercises while ignoring the neurological reality of what is happening in your system.
What SOMA Offers
Bio-Psychosocial Care at the Intersection of Hormones and Trauma
SOMA offers culturally responsive, bio-psychosocial mental health care tracking the precise intersection of hormonal shifts, nervous system vulnerabilities, and identity transitions. This is a clinical area Dr. Aday specializes in: the Perimenopause and Menopause-Trauma Intersection.
Perimenopause and menopause are not simply hormonal events. They are neurological transitions that alter the brain's stress response architecture, reduce estrogen's protective buffering of the amygdala, and can surface previously managed or unresolved trauma with new intensity.
SOMA's approach acknowledges that what you are experiencing is not a mental health crisis separate from your biology. It is a bio-psychosocial transition that requires integrated care, not a single-modality solution.
Dr. Aday's clinical specialization in the Perimenopause and Menopause-Trauma Intersection directly informs SOMA's clinical approach to women's mental health across the lifespan.
Who This Is For
You may recognize yourself in more than one of these.
You are in perimenopause or menopause and find that your emotional regulation has shifted in ways that feel foreign and destabilizing.
You have a history of trauma that seems to be resurfacing with new intensity during this hormonal transition.
You feel dismissed by providers who attribute everything to hormones without addressing the psychological dimension.
You are navigating identity shifts alongside the physical changes and need a framework for both.
You want care that treats you as a whole person, not a symptom cluster.
You are a woman at any life stage navigating the intersection of body, identity, and mental health.
Clinical Approaches
Perimenopause-Trauma Intersection Research (Aday)
Neuro-Endocrine Psychoeducation
Somatic Regulation for Hormonal Transitions
Identity Transition Work
Culturally Responsive Care
Trauma Reprocessing in Hormonal Context