Joyful Living Behavioral Health
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We are a mental health group practice located in Eugene OR. We serve all of Oregon and work with all ages.
05/29/2026
If midlife has felt more like chaos than a transition, you aren't imagining it, and you don't have to sort through it alone.
Midlife Hormone Chaos is a 10-week online menopause support group at Joyful Living Behavioral Health, led by Heather Chavin, Professional Counselor Associate. Each week we look at the neurobiology behind what perimenopause and menopause are doing to your brain and body, and build practical skills to work with those changes. Supervised by Naamith Heiblum, PhD, Supervisor.
Two ways to join:
Tuesdays at 12:00 PM starting July 28
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM starting July 15
Both groups meet online and are open to Oregon residents. Full details and registration on our site!
A 2026 study in the journal Menopause found that 75 to 83 percent of people in the menopause transition report symptoms beyond hot flashes.
Things like fatigue, irritability, anxiety, depressed mood, sleep problems, digestive issues, and exhaustion.
These aren't personality changes. They aren't overreactions. They're physiological shifts happening across every system in the body as estrogen and progesterone levels change.
One example: shifts in how the brain responds to dopamine can make completing a simple task, like a load of laundry, feel genuinely overwhelming. Not because something is wrong with you, but because your brain chemistry is in transition.
These changes are real. And they deserve real, structured support.
That's what our 10-week perimenopause and menopause therapy group at Joyful Living is built around: understanding what's happening in your brain and body during this transition, and learning alongside others who are in it too.
Visit joyfullivingbh.com for the next group start date.
05/14/2026
Stop telling yourself it's all in your head when it might be your endocrine system.
When estrogen drops, your ability to regulate cortisol changes with it. Small stressors hit harder. Maybe you're still carrying something hours after it should have passed. That 3 a.m. wake-up with your heart racing? That's often elevated cortisol, not a character flaw.
This is a physiological event. This is perimenopause and menopause.
If you already had anxiety, the tools that worked before may not be enough anymore. If you never dealt with anxiety before, you might be meeting it for the first time. Both are common. Both make sense given what your hormones are doing.
What you need is not more willpower. What actually helps are evidence-based tools, skills that fit your biology, and support from people who are in the same season of life.
That is exactly what our 10-week perimenopause and menopause therapy group at Joyful Living is built around. A clinician-led, online group that looks at how changing hormones affect your whole system and what we know works.
Visit our site to find the next start date, or send us a DM with any questions.
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115 West 8th Avenue Ste 300
Springfield, OR
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