Hera Menopause and Women’s Health

Hera Menopause and Women’s Health A GP led menopause and women’s health clinic for all women

✨MEET LYNSEY!✨Lynsey Wood is a Clinical Psychologist with 15 years’ experience supporting young people and families, and...
16/04/2026

✨MEET LYNSEY!✨

Lynsey Wood is a Clinical Psychologist with 15 years’ experience supporting young people and families, and a strong focus on women’s mental health. She has a special interest in menopause, hormonal changes, and late diagnoses of ADHD and autism.

Lynsey takes a warm, trauma-informed, evidence-based approach, creating a space where women feel heard, understood and supported. (She gets it!)

Hera deeply cares about the mental health of women. We are INCREDIBLY lucky to have such an experienced and caring psychologist in house to look after our wonderful patients 🧡

15/03/2026

🛬 We made it!
Amidst global unrest and flight reshuffling, EVERY moment of attending the conference 2026 was worth it !

🌷New connections were made : there are some beautiful European colleagues doing amazing work across the board with

🌷Our brains were nourished, hearing about :
- The Gut-Brain-Hormone-Axis
-PDE5 inhibitors and women
- Mitichondrial Ageing & Life Hormones
- The Art & Science of Medicine
-Sexual Wellbeing
-ADHD & Women
- Lived experience of PMDD

🌷Bonds were strengthened :
SO wonderful to see our dear friends again and .rebecca.lewis moving from strength to strength with gold stars given by the UK Care Quality Commission (finally!) 🌟

Women’s Health and Hormones is on the UP, and rest assured, the world is in good hands 🧡
tash.mirando felicegersh


rampling

17/02/2026

Well done to for inviting to talk all about the plight of and Lawley Pharmaceutical’s quest to get it on the PBS despite recent knock-backs.

They’re bravely taking the PBAC to court so let’s get behind them..

As always 🧡

Get on to and sign the petition if you haven’t so far. (Link in Bio at the top of our page)

🌞We are all aware of the wonderful benefits of Testosterone in women. 🌞 Hera is immensely passionate about our own home ...
12/02/2026

🌞We are all aware of the wonderful benefits of Testosterone in women.
🌞 Hera is immensely passionate about our own home grown product Androfeme -1. Made by a small Perth-based pharmaceutical company, Lawley Pharmaceuticals, it is the only female-specific formulation of its kind approved anywhere in the world, with regulatory approvals in Australia, the UK, New Zealand and South Africa.

👉🏼 Meanwhile, in Australia..it remains available only on private prescription.

🌞 ..Inequity at its finest:

▪️ Australian men have access to eight PBS-subsidised testosterone formulations
▪️ Women have NONE
▪️ Women currently pay 14–16 times more for comparable treatment.
‘VERY un- Australian !’

🌞 Recently, the PBAC REJECTED the PBS listing of Andofeme-1 on grounds that were frankly unfounded. This is a ‘rejection of the physical, mental and sexual needs of post menopausal women.’

🌞Lawley Pharmaceuticals is now legally challenging this rejection but need the support of ALL of us across Australia.

🌞After more than two decades of research and development, the company says this challenge is about ensuring Australian women are not left behind.

🌞This is about access.
This is about equity.
This is about recognising women’s sexual health as real, valid, and deserving of support.

⭐️More info : https://www.lawleypharm.com.au/news/pbac-says-no-2/?

⭐️Sign the petition :
https://c.org/yCVH6VjDRK

🌞Once again, we will not give up, until we achieve equity for women’s health 🧡

🧡 HERA IS HIRING!!!🧡As the first menopause dedicated clinic in Perth, Hera is a supportive and fertile ground to grow as...
26/01/2026

🧡 HERA IS HIRING!!!🧡
As the first menopause dedicated clinic in Perth, Hera is a supportive and fertile ground to grow as a Women’s Health Doctor.

🌺 is a GP-led specialist clinic providing high-quality, evidence-based care for women navigating hormonal transitions across their lifetime. We take the time to listen deeply, and understand each woman’s symptoms, values and life context. We place strong emphasis on education, and empowerment, so that women can actively participate in decisions about their health.

💥 We are looking for a GP with a PASSION for women’s health, particularly the care of women in midlife, to join our dedicated clinic in Mt Lawley.

🌿You will THRIVE here if…
1/ You have a strong interest in hormones and complex midlife cases
2/ Value longer consultations with quality, personalised care
3/Are motivated by meaningful relationship-based medicine
4/ Enjoy working within a collaborative woman- centred team

👉🏼HERA OFFERS :
-Comprehensive management of peri/menopause including tailored HRT prescribing
- Menstrual Disorders-Endometriosis, PCOS etc
- Reproductive Mood Disorders: PMS/PMDD
- Contraceptive services including IUD insertions
- Metabolic and Preventative Health
- Sexual & Libido support (sexologist in house)

👩🏻‍🎓We have regular case discussion, clinical & journal club meetings and are tight knit team willing to learn from each-other!
🎤There are LOTS of teaching/speaking opportunities available also as Hera participates in community education.

☎️We continue to receive daily enquiries from new patients and currently have more demand than our capacity allows — meaning there is ample, sustainable work on offer.

🗓️Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturday mornings are still available for consulting at our premises plus additional telehealth consulting hours if desired.

✨We offer flexibility, autonomy and the chance to be part of a clinic that is actively improving the standard of care for women. If women’s healthcare matters to you, and you want your work to make a genuine difference- we’d love to connect!

📝Drop your CV (attention to Dr Sunita Chelva/Dr Michelle Cotellessa) at hello@heramenopause.com.au

🎨This exquisite painting by Gustav Klimt from 1905 is a familiar image gracing walls and greeting cards alike. It is th...
22/11/2025

🎨This exquisite painting by Gustav Klimt from 1905 is a familiar image gracing walls and greeting cards alike. It is the epitome of the ‘ideal female’- calm, maternal & youthful.

🎨Hera’s amazing Dr Hannah discovered that this painting is actually titled ‘The Three Ages of Woman,’ and so went searching for the THIRD woman (you can see a little of her hair in the left of the painting).

🖼️ Swipe to see the painting in its entirety, and you can see that the older (post menopausal) woman, devoid of hormones, kyphotic and depressed has been completely left out of the picture!!!

🎨We pondered over the fact that society has only revered women in their reproductive years and beyond that she had little use.

🎨Now, we spend 30+ years post menopause and with the right education and support (and hormones) women FLOURISH becoming strong, wise, and self assured. This is often their BEST chapter! 🌟

(We wondered what he may have painted should he have added the ‘Perimenopausal woman’ but probably Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ captures it perfectly !!) 😱

☠️Until this week all Estrogen containing HRT products have had black box warnings inside them much like a cigarette pac...
13/11/2025

☠️Until this week all Estrogen containing HRT products have had black box warnings inside them much like a cigarette packet (ridiculous and wrong!) ▪️

☠️A result of the fallout from the misinterpreted WHI study, 23 YEARS have passed with no amendment to the information women have been provided.

☠️These outdated warnings have totally perpetuated the FEAR around HRT

☠️The USA has paved the way with a landmark decision this week to REMOVE these warnings l. Thanks to brave legends such as & 🧡

☠️ Modern HRT is BODY- IDENTICAL, low risk and most women can take it as long as the benefits outweigh the risks ie FOREVER

☠️ The TGA in Australia needs to follow suit and remove these warnings ASAP. Australian women deserve this too!

☠️Once again has come to the rescue!!
Sign the petition here to get Australia up to speed and remove the fear.

https://c.org/dsgqCrmxWZ

(Link in Bio)

As our mates put it so eloquently: ‘because informed women don’t need warnings!’ 😮‍💨

.. Well, this recent Observational Study blew our minds a little 🧠☘️ “A new international study led Prof Emer McGrath at...
16/10/2025

.. Well, this recent Observational Study blew our minds a little 🧠

☘️ “A new international study led Prof Emer McGrath at the University of Galway has found that entering menopause at an earlier age is associated with an increased risk of dementia.

The research also showed that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause appears to be associated with a reduced risk of dementia.

The findings have been published today in the Journal for Alzheimer’s Disease.

The research team from University of Galway and Boston University carried out the study with 1,329 cognitively healthy women from The Framingham Heart Study - the world’s longest running longitudinal cohort study - to analyse the association between reproductive factors and markers of brain aging.

It found:

🧠Entering menopause at an earlier age is associated with an increased risk of dementia.
🧠HRT after menopause appears to be associated with a reduced risk of dementia.
🧠Greater exposure to estrogen over the reproductive lifespan was associated with enhanced cognitive performance and larger brain volumes.
🧠Having more children, higher blood oestrogen levels and being older at the time of menopause were also associated with better cognitive test performance, specifically better visuospatial skills - the ability to perceive, analyse and mentally manipulate visual and spatial information.”
. but perhaps we have already known this.

The more research on women’s brains.. the BETTER 🧡

Soooo chuffed to have a drop in at the clinic today from two superstars of the Menoverse! 🌏 & from had a flying visit ...
15/09/2025

Soooo chuffed to have a drop in at the clinic today from two superstars of the Menoverse! 🌏

& from had a flying visit to en route to the airport.

We learnt so much from our time and love our continuing connections across Australia 🧡

🥳 On Hera’s SECOND birthday we celebrate the fact that each woman is her own unique recipe!(nb We include all those born...
07/08/2025

🥳 On Hera’s SECOND birthday we celebrate the fact that each woman is her own unique recipe!

(nb We include all those born with ovaries 🥚)

🎂We delight in finding the right ‘mix’ so our patients can be the best versions of themselves.

🍰We know that Estrogen, Progesterone and Testosterone are all essential parts of the female physiology lost through the process of menopause & ageing

🍰ESTROGEN is like the cake itself, the substance and structure. It is the building block to brain chemistry, bones,soft tissues, blood vessels, heart & gut health

🍰PROGESTERONE is like the filling between the layers which softens and calms. It gives stability to the uterine lining.

🍰TESTOSTERONE is like the icing on top, sweet, zingy and bright. It gives colour and zest.

🎂Each person needs the right amount of one or all of the hormones in the correct balance to function optimally. (A few don’t need any..)
🎂We know there is GREAT individual variability in how we absorb things through our skin and gut.
🎂There are many different options and combinations available to us.
🎂It can take years to perfect the right recipe for some women. (They are finely tuned gourmet offerings!) Be patient in the process ..no quick fixes here!

🍰Some are perfectly happy with a ‘packet mix’ (lucky them!)
🍰Others need extra additions to their cake (the sprinkles, the nuts/the fruit etc) These might included specific dietary supplements/other medications/ weight loss supports) to get them just ‘right.’

🍰Not everyone loves icing..Not everyone loves filling..Not everyone loves cake (but we reckon it’s pretty essential to any
table).Some people ONLY want the icing or the filling!

😱(Worse still - when we all love cake but there happens to be darn cake shortage!!!)

🧡Your input is essential to finding the right recipe with your clinician’s support. YOU are the expert of your own body!

Team dinners are the best 🧡 🧡 🧡To be able to sit down and connect with this awesome team is precious!We are so lucky to ...
01/08/2025

Team dinners are the best 🧡 🧡 🧡

To be able to sit down and connect with this awesome team is precious!

We are so lucky to have such a beautiful front of house crew and hardworking and compassionate doctors

….On August 7 Hera will be TWO! 🎈

Thank you to our magnificent team and to our lovely patients- we could not have done this without YOU 🧡



GET TO KNOW : Dr Victoria BlackwellVictoria has joined the Hera team in recent months and has already proven to be inval...
13/04/2025

GET TO KNOW : Dr Victoria Blackwell

Victoria has joined the Hera team in recent months and has already proven to be invaluable. Her thirst for knowledge and passion for menopause medicine is obvious. We are so glad to have this wonderful GP in Perth and at Hera 🧡

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8 Walcott Street Mount Lawley
Perth, WA
6050

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm

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