Scope of Practice

MenoBoss certifications are non-clinical educational credentials. They do not confer registration as a health practitioner in any jurisdiction.

Each tier has its own scope, set out below, and it is exact. Diagnosis, prescribing, treatment and clinical advice always sit with a qualified clinician.

Certified Integrative Menopause Champion: understands and advocates for herself.

MenoBoss Menopause Practitioner: advocates, educates, accompanies and refers.

MenoBoss Advanced Midlife Practitioner: advocates, educates, plans, accompanies and refers.

Train the Trainer: the Trainer licence is permission to teach and assess MenoBoss certifications. It is not a clinical licence.

What educates means, wherever it appears above: explaining what happens in bodies generally. It does not extend to telling a particular woman what is happening in hers. General is education, particular is diagnosis, and the referral is the boundary between them.

An Advanced Midlife Practitioner may put a written plan together with a woman: food, movement, sleep, stress, and the questions to take to her doctor. She recommends. She does not prescribe.

A plan never includes starting, stopping or adjusting hormone therapy, any medication, or any supplement. Those decisions belong to a clinician, at every tier, without exception.

A Certified Integrative Menopause Champion may tell another woman what she learned, hand over the source rather than her own conclusion, and encourage her to go and see somebody. That is not outside her scope and it never was.

What she may not do is accompany her: go with her, speak for her to a manager or a clinician, or carry the weight of being the person that woman is relying on. That is the Menopause Practitioner's work, and advocating for workplaces and communities sits at the Menopause Practitioner tier and above.

Explain the stages of the menopause transition and its common symptoms; help someone describe their pattern; share general lifestyle and self-care information; encourage and support a conversation with a doctor.

Diagnose menopause or any other condition; recommend, adjust or discourage hormone therapy or any medication or supplement; interpret test results; imply that you are a doctor, nurse or registered health professional; or use the MenoBoss marks in a way that suggests a clinical qualification.

Any sign of self-harm, severe depression, unexplained bleeding, or acute physical symptoms must be referred to a clinician or emergency service immediately. Supporting someone never means delaying care.