The CYCLES® Training Institute

Equipping therapists to work with confidence in hormonal mental health.

If you work with women, their hormones are already in the room

If you work with women, their hormones are probably already affecting your clients' mental health. Most therapists never ask about it because they were never taught why it matters.

PMS, PMDD, perinatal mood difficulties, perimenopause and menopause can all look like depression, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation. They are frequently missed, and the cost to clients is real.

The CYCLES® Institute exists to give you the knowledge and confidence to change that.

What we offer

Introductory workshop

Introductory Workshop

A 1.5-hour online workshop offering a psychologically grounded introduction to hormonal mental health presentations. Designed for qualified mental health professionals who are already encountering this work in their practice or wish to expand into it.

£49

CPD training day

Foundation Day

A CPD training day for therapists and mental health practitioners who want grounded, clinically credible training in hormonal mental health. Practical, evidence-based, and built around the CYCLES® Framework.

Dates coming soon

Join the waitlist

Practitioner certification

The CYCLES® Practitioner Certification

A specialist certification pathway for practitioners who want to develop a recognised area of clinical practice in hormonal mental health. Covers PMS, PMDD, perinatal mood difficulties, perimenopause and menopause, with further pathways in development.

Launching 2026

Places will be limited.

About the CYCLES® Framework

The CYCLES® Framework was developed through co-research with over 250 people living with PMDD, in collaboration with leading specialists and supported by the International Association for Premenstrual Disorders (IAPMD). It brings together evidence-based psychology, clinical expertise, and real-world lived experience into a structured, teachable model.

CYCLES® is an acronym capturing the six clinical domains at the heart of the framework.

Calm the nervous system

Helping the body feel safer and more settled across the cycle

Your patterns

Understanding how hormonal presentations show up individually

Cope with emotions and stress

Developing responses that reduce fallout and self-blame

Live with cyclical awareness

Planning and responding in ways that reflect changing capacity

Engage differently

With thoughts, expectations, relationships, and with oneself

Sustain what helps

Recognising what builds steadiness over time and what undermines it

CYCLES® is a registered trademark.

About your trainer

Dr Helena Tucker is a HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist and specialist in hormonal mental health. She has worked clinically with hundreds of people living with PMDD, perimenopause, menopause, and related conditions, and has trained and spoken for NHS settings, universities, and professional organisations.

She founded the CYCLES® Institute to address the gap she encountered repeatedly in clinical practice: therapists who wanted to develop their clinical knowledge in hormonal mental health but had nowhere to turn for rigorous, evidence-based training.