Menopause Care in New Albany, Ohio
Hot flashes and 3am wake-ups matter, and that is where we start. But menopause also marks the start of the next several decades of your life, and what you do in these years shapes how strong those decades will be. This is care for your bones, your heart and your brain, so you can keep doing the things you love for a very long time.
In person in New Albany and by video anywhere in Ohio. We usually schedule new consultations within two weeks and return every call within one business day.
$199, 60 minutes, with Dr. Courtney.
Menopause is not just the year your periods stop. For most women, the symptoms carry on well past it, and plenty of them are never connected back to hormones at all.
Hot flashes and night sweats that did not stop when your periods did
Sleep that never fully came back
Vaginal dryness, painful sex, or urinary symptoms nobody offered to discuss
Brain fog, or losing the word mid-sentence
Joint aches that showed up without an injury
Weight that settled differently no matter what you changed
Low libido, or a sense that your body stopped feeling like yours
Mood changes that do not match what is going on in your life
Some of these ease on their own. Some do not, and the vaginal and urinary symptoms usually get worse without treatment rather than better. You should not have to guess which is which.
If this is where you are, you are in the right place
You’re not the first to feel this way,
and that’s exactly why we’re here.
Menopause changes more than your cycle,
it changes what your body needs
For decades, estrogen has been working the night shift. It quietly helps rebuild bone, keeps blood vessels flexible and helps fuel your brain, and you never had to think about any of it. Menopause is when that crew clocks out. The work still needs doing, and the years right around menopause are when a plan does the most good.
Your bones. Bone loss speeds up starting about a year before your final period, averaging around 2% a year for roughly three years. Women who lose more bone during this stretch have more fractures later.
Your heart. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. LDL cholesterol and triglycerides tend to peak in late perimenopause and early post-menopause, usually without a single symptom to tell you.
Your brain. Brain fog is real, and brain imaging shows measurable changes across the menopause transition. The encouraging part is that for many women those changes settle after menopause. No one can honestly promise you a pill that prevents dementia, but many of its risk factors are ones you can change, like blood pressure, cholesterol, inactivity, and hearing loss.
Your muscle. Muscle carries you through everything else, and after midlife, you have to build it on purpose. Strength training is one of the few things shown to build bone after menopause. In one trial, women with low bone mass who lifted heavy twice a week under supervision gained bone density in the spine, while the comparison group lost it.
None of this is a reason to be afraid. It is a reason to have a plan, made with someone who knows what to look for.
Who you will be seeing
Courtney Shihabuddin, DNP, APRN-CNP, MSCP, was thrown into menopause at 35 by the breast cancer treatment that saved her life and was handed almost nothing to manage it. That experience is a large part of why Empowered Wellness for Her exists.
Today she is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, the credential The Menopause Society awards for advanced expertise in midlife women’s health. She is also an Associate Clinical Professor at The Ohio State University College of Nursing, where she directs the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty track and teaches future clinicians to recognize and treat menopause. You may also know her from her monthly women’s health segment on Good Day Columbus.
You will see her. Not a rotating panel, not whoever is available. The same clinician, every visit.
Start with an initial care consultation, $199
This is a real appointment, not a sales call. You will have 60 minutes to walk through your health history, your family history, the symptoms you are having now, and what you want the next few decades to look like.
What happens in your consultation
A full review of your health history and your symptoms, in your words, without being rushed
An honest conversation about what is likely driving how you feel
A clear explanation of your options, including what the evidence does and does not support
A recommended path forward, and what ongoing care would look like
Good to know before you come in
No prescriptions are written at the initial consultation. This visit is where we figure out what is going on and whether we are a good fit for each other. If you decide to move forward into ongoing care, that is where treatment begins. We would rather tell you that plainly now than have you arrive expecting something different.
What happens after
Empowered Wellness for Her is a membership practice, because aging well is not a one-visit project. Ongoing care means consistent access to your clinician, lab monitoring, and a plan that changes as your body does. We treat the symptoms wearing you down now, and we keep watch over the long game: your bones, your heart, your brain and your strength. If you decide to move forward after your consultation, we will walk you through exactly what that costs and what it includes. Nothing is decided on the spot.
A few things worth knowing up front
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We do not bill insurance. Empowered Wellness for Her is a direct-pay practice, which is what makes unhurried appointments possible, and it is the honest tradeoff of this model.
We accept HSA and FSA cards. We can also provide a superbill you may be able to submit to your plan for out-of-network reimbursement, though we cannot promise what your plan will do with it.
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Yes. Empowered Wellness for Her has formally opted out of Medicare, which is what allows us to see you.
In practical terms, Medicare will not reimburse our visit fees, neither of us submits a claim, and Medigap plans will not cover them either. For the same reason, we cannot provide a superbill for these visits the way we can for other patients.
Before your first appointment, we will walk you through a short private agreement that spells all of this out. Medications we prescribe can still go through your Part D drug plan.
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Yes. Hormone therapy is one option among several, and it is not the right option for everyone. There are non-hormonal treatments with real evidence behind them for hot flashes, sleep, and vaginal and urinary symptoms. Building a plan around your actual history is the entire point of the consultation.
Have us call you
Leave your name and number and we will call you within one business day. Ask us anything about whether this is the right fit, how membership works, or what happens at your first visit. Please leave medical details out for now. Those deserve the time your appointment gives them.
Prefer to call? 614-392-7670, Monday through Friday, 9am to 4pm.