Reproductive Psychiatrist &
Hormone Specialist
Tend Her
to
Kate Salama, M.D.
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You Deserve Female Centered Healthcare that Helps You Take Charge of Your Hormones & Feel Like Yourself Again
Tend to Her is dedicated to providing compassionate and specialized mental healthcare for women during reproductive transitions and periods of hormonal fluctuation. I am passionate about empowering women to make the best choices for their health. I offer a unique blend of evidence-based treatment that seamlessly merges traditional psychopharmacology with holistic and lifestyle based interventions. This approach allows me to fully address emotional well-being during life’s most vulnerable stages, including menses, infertility and related treatments, pregnancy & postpartum, and perimenopause.
Discover my holistic approach to women's mental health and learn more about my unique journey.
Health Practitioner Program
A Holistic Approach to Your Mental Health
My approach is integrative, combining evidence-based psychiatric treatments, including psychotherapy and medication management, with holistic strategies that encompass nutritional and supplement guidance, sleep optimization, and other lifestyle adjustments tailored to your unique needs. This holistic approach acknowledges the profound connection between your mental health, hormonal balance, and overall well-being.
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Navigating the Complexities of Reproductive Health
Whether you’re planning for pregnancy, experiencing the challenges of postpartum life, or facing the hormonal shifts of perimenopause, I’m here to help lead you to mental wellness. I commonly help women find the safest medication regimens for pregnancy, understand how to assess risk for postpartum depression and anxiety, identify early perimenopause, and so much more.
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Empowering You on Your Journey
My mission is to empower you to make informed choices about your mental health and overall wellness. Together, we will navigate the emotional landscape of each reproductive phase, ensuring that you not only stabilize but also find joy and fulfillment in the journey. I'm excited to partner with you as you embark on this transformative path. Please explore my website to learn more about my services, approach, and how I can support you on your personal journey towards holistic well-being.
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WOMENS’ HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES
Experience the impact of healthcare tailored to women.
Uncover the relationship between mood patterns and your menstrual cycle. Together, we will work to reduce premenstrual mood changes through lifestyle adjustments, supplementation, medication management, and hormonal intervention.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
You no longer have to dread your period. I will help you to understand your menstrual cycle, establish optimal cycles, and sync your nutrition, exercise, sleep, and supplements to each phase of your cycle.
Perfect Your Periods
Understand root causes of PCOS and manage PCOS with personalized nutrition, exercise, and supplementation strategies. I will work with you to prepare for pregnancy with PCOS.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
(PCOS)
I will help you prepare physically and emotionally to get you in the best shape prior to conception and enhance natural fertility outcomes. I specialize in assisting women with the transition off birth control and mitigating post-birth control syndrome.
Fertility Optimization
Better understand endometriosis and its impact on your physical and mental health. Work with me to decrease chronic inflammation in the body to keep endometriosis symptoms at bay.
Endometriosis
Find support through the grief and heartbreak of infertility & pregnancy loss with psychotherapy, holistic strategies, and/or medication management.
Infertility & Pregnancy Loss
Achieve wellness and stability during this time period, while keeping your developing baby safe. I have expertise in medication management during pregnancy and postpartum and also use many holistic strategies to help women reduce medication burden without sacrificing emotional stability. I’ve also worked with many women who are processing traumatic childbirth experiences and/or who are wanting to reduce retraumatization during a pregnancy following traumatic childbirth.
Pregnancy & Postpartum
Navigate the hormonal swings of perimenopause and walk into menopause with grace. We'll explore nutritional and exercise strategies to align with your changing hormonal environment, as well as use supplements and/or medication to manage mood changes, insomnia, and hot flashes.
Perimenopause & Menopause
Rebalance your life as a mother, partner, and professional to thrive in modern motherhood without losing yourself. Re-examine your values and priorities as you transition into motherhood and live the life that brings you joy.
The Balance of Motherhood
You no longer have to dread your period.
I will help you to understand your menstrual cycle, establish optimal cycles, and sync your nutrition, exercise, sleep, and supplements to each phase of
your cycle.
Perfect Your Periods
1/9
Uncover the relationship between mood patterns and your menstrual cycle. Together, we will work to reduce premenstrual mood changes through lifestyle adjustments, supplementation, medication management, and
hormonal intervention.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
2/9
Understand root causes of PCOS and manage PCOS with personalized nutrition, exercise, and supplementation strategies. I will work with you to prepare for pregnancy with PCOS.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
3/9
Better understand endometriosis and its impact on your physical and mental health. Work with me to decrease chronic inflammation in the body to keep endometriosis symptoms at bay.
Endometriosis
4/9
I will help you prepare physically and emotionally to get you in the best shape prior to conception and enhance natural fertility outcomes. I specialize in assisting women in transitioning off birth control and mitigating post-birth control syndrome.
Fertility Optimization
5/9
Find support through the grief and heartbreak of infertility & pregnancy loss with psychotherapy, holistic strategies, and/or medication management.
Infertility & Pregnancy Loss
6/9
Achieve wellness and stability during this time period, while keeping your developing baby safe. I have expertise in medication management during pregnancy and postpartum and also use many holistic strategies to help women reduce medication burden without sacrificing emotional stability. I’ve also worked with many women who are processing traumatic childbirth experiences and/or who are wanting to reduce retraumatization during a pregnancy following traumatic childbirth.
Pregnancy & Postpartum
7/9
Rebalance your life as a mother, partner, and professional to thrive in modern motherhood without losing yourself. Re-examine your values and priorities as you transition into motherhood and live the life that brings you joy.
The Balance of Motherhood
8/9
Navigate the hormonal swings of perimenopause and walk into menopause with grace. We'll explore nutritional and exercise strategies to align with your changing hormonal environment, as well as use supplements and/or medication to manage mood changes, insomnia, and hot flashes.
Perimenopause & Menopause
9/9
Discover eating patterns and nutrition optimization strategies that enhance mental health and overall well-being.
Nutritional Guidance
We will thoroughly assess your sleep and work to improve sleep through cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and/or supplementation.
Sleep Optimization
Explore supplement regimens and optimize existing supplements to alleviate stress, anxiety, insomnia, and more.
Herbal & Plant Based Supplementation
Access comprehensive lab testing to assess nutritional/vitamin status, thyroid function, gastrointestinal health, adrenal function, and reproductive hormones. Take a whole-body holistic approach to optimize your physical and mental well-being.
Functional Lab Testing
Whether you're a holistic-minded practitioner seeking to go deeper into the intersection between women’s health and holistic hormone balancing strategies or a medical professional eager to receive mentorship in reproductive psychiatry, this program offers invaluable insights and community. Join me in advancing women's mental health and hormone balance – learn more today and take your practice to the next level.
Tend to Her Practitioner Program
Women's Health and Hormone Balancing for the Holistic Minded Practitioner
For Practitioners
Strengthen your ability to support women through reproductive life transitions and periods of hormonal imbalance — with an empowering and collaborative approach that emphasizes education and community to enhance women's health and overall well-being.
“Our work should equip the next generation of women to outdo us in every field this is the legacy we'll leave behind -progress”
― Rupi Kaur,
The Sun and Her Flower
