Women's health is not a niche — it is a lifespan defined by transition. From adolescence through the reproductive years, into the seismic shifts of perimenopause and menopause — a woman's biology is never static, and each transition carries its own clinical complexity. Yet this is precisely where both conventional medicine and functional approaches too often fail her: one handing her a diagnosis that explains little and offers less; the other reaching for expensive testing panels in place of clinical reasoning, or retreating into reductive narratives like oestrogen dominance that flatten the extraordinary complexity of women's hormonal biology into a single, often misleading story.
For many of you, something else underpins this landscape. A growing sense that the protocols you were taught — medical or functional — aren't working the way they should, and an exhaustion that comes from trying to "fix" what feels overwhelming when you are navigating it alone in clinic. You have seen it repeatedly: women with chronic pelvic pain cycling through interventions without resolution; PMDD reduced to a progesterone sensitivity narrative; perimenopausal shifts in metabolism and mood met with hormone therapy as the only answer on offer. We are stuck in clinical loops and linear thinking — and it is time to step out of them.
The Women's Health Practicum is curated to break those loops and welcome a genuinely new paradigm of women's health care. We’ll move through the full clinical arc: from the HPO hierarchy and hormonal pattern recognition, to the realities of chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and central sensitisation — and then, crucially, turn the lens on the practitioner herself. Peta and I will open our own kit bags: the tools, practices, and frameworks we actually use, with an invitation to apply that same lens to your own life and practice.
This is not just a lecture day — though there is plenty of rich technical content. It is, as importantly, a clinical conversation: evidence-grounded, honest, and built to translate directly into practice.
A day I genuinely don't believe exists anywhere else for practitioners in this space.
Tanya x
Raising The Bar in Serving Women’s Health
MORNING: BUILD THE FOUNDATION
The Women’s Health Practicum
9.30am - Arrival & welcome refreshments
Organic coffee, fresh herbal teas, & time to settle with views across the coast
10-11.30am: From result to reasoning: hormonal pattern recognition, testing & the HPO axis in practice with Tanya Borowski
The morning's anchor session — and a direct challenge to how hormonal health is currently being approached in functional and nutritional practice.
Too many women are being asked to spend significant sums on functional testing panels that, in truth, add little to clinical decision-making. The real gold lies in knowing how to use serum pathology intelligently — understanding what to test, when to test it, how to interpret results in the context of each woman's individual presentation, and crucially, what the patterns are actually telling you.
Part one - Working through the HPO hierarchy from the top down — The CEO (GnRH, dopamine), managers (LH, FSH, prolactin), and the players (oestrogens, progesterone, androgens) — you will learn when to test, how to read hormonal patterns across the lifespan together, not in isolation. Serum reference ranges, cycle phase timing, and the common presentations that confuse — with case examples throughout.
Part two cuts through the noise on testing: where gold-standard NHS pathology outperforms functional alternatives, where nutrigenomic testing genuinely adds clinical value, and how to build a sequenced, proportionate testing strategy.
You will leave with:
A working framework of the HPO axis and its key hormones — roles, patterns, and what test results actually tell you
Confidence reading serum reference ranges in the context of cycle phase and life stage
Clarity on common hormonal presentations that confuse — and why
A rational, evidence-informed approach to testing that serves your client, and clinical efficacy
Beautifully presented handouts as clinical tools for your clinical practice
11.30-12.15pm: Mid-Morning Break
Guided movement & breathwork session, overlooking the sea
Organic coffee, fresh herbal teas & healthy snack outside on the deck
MID-MORNING: CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN
1.40-2.50pm: Chronic pelvic pain: understanding, approaching & supporting women in clinic with Dr Peta Wright — integrative gynaecologist
Women with chronic pelvic pain are among the most underserved in the medical system — and often among the most exhausted by the time they reach your clinic. They have been investigated, managed, and discharged. They have been told their pain is normal, or that nothing more can be done. And yet they are still suffering.
The problem is rarely the patient. It is the model.
Because chronic pelvic pain is not simply a tissue problem. Endometriosis, adenomyosis, interstitial cystitis, central sensitisation — these conditions share a common thread that conventional gynaecology has been slow to acknowledge: the profound role of nervous system dysregulation, unprocessed trauma, and the body's own protective responses. Layers that most practitioners have never been taught to recognise, let alone work with.
In this session, Dr Peta Wright — integrative gynaecologist and one of Australia's leading voices in whole-person pelvic pain care — brings her clinical framework to the practicum. How to assess complexity without being overwhelmed by it. How to work alongside medical management rather than around it. And how to hold space for women whose pain has been dismissed, minimised, or medicalised without ever being truly understood..
You will leave with:
A clinical framework for assessing and approaching chronic pelvic pain across endo, adenomyosis, IC, and central sensitisation
An understanding of the nervous system's role in pelvic pain — and how to begin working with it
Practical guidance on collaborating with medical management rather than working in isolation
The communication approaches that build trust, reduce overwhelm, and genuinely move the needle for women in complex pain
1.30-2.30pm - Lunch: plant-based and locally sourced
Connect with speakers, colleagues & sponsors — overlooking the sea, which will do the rest 😘
AFTERNOON: THE PRACTITIONER'S OWN TOOLKIT
2.30-4.30pm: The practitioner audit: tools, practices & wellbeing for the clinician with Tanya Borowski + Dr Peta Wright
This is where the format shifts. After a morning of rich clinical teaching, the afternoon transitions into something different — and equally important. Because the most evidence-informed practitioner in the room cannot sustainably serve her clients if she is running on empty, disconnected from her own body, or quietly struggling with the same hormonal and nervous system challenges she supports others through.
Tanya and Peta begin by opening their own kit bags — the tools, practices, and frameworks they actually use to support their own hormonal health, nervous system regulation, and sustainable clinical practice. No performance, no perfection. Just honesty about what works, and why.
The session then moves into live case work. Two cases submitted in advance by ticket holders will be worked through together — a collaborative, open format that reflects the kind of clinical thinking that lecture-style learning simply cannot replicate. Sitting with complexity in real time, hearing how experienced clinicians reason through uncertainty, and recognising your own clients in the room: this is where integration happens.
The afternoon closes with a guided breathwork practice — a lived demonstration of one of the most accessible and evidence-based nervous system tools available to both practitioners and clients.
Attendees leave with a practical, personalised set of tools to carry into their own wellbeing and working lives — and a reminder of why they chose this work in the first place.
Held with warmth, honesty, and without pressure.
You will leave with:
Tanya and Peta's personal hormonal health and nervous system toolkit
Rich clinical Insight into two real cases worked through collaboratively — and the clinical reasoning behind them
Space to reflect on your own health through the lens of the day
A renewed sense of purpose and practical grounding in your practice
4.30pm: Close, goodie bags & carriages
About Dr Peta Wright
Gynaecologist
Paediatric & Adolescent Gynaecologist
Fertility Specialist
MBBS MRMed FRANZCOG
Founder, Vera Wellness
Dr Peta Wright has a relaxed and compassionate attitude that will put you at ease knowing you’re in capable, caring hands. She is a gynaecologist, paediatric & adolescent gynaecologist, and fertility specialist.
Peta is deeply committed to all aspects of women’s health care and founded Vera Wellness in 2020. She strives to take a wholistic approach to managing the health concerns of women of all ages. Peta has a particular interest and expertise in the areas of paediatric and adolescent gynaecology, having completed a fellowship in adolescent gynaecology in 2013.
Peta is the author of Healing Pelvic Pain, published in 2023, a book about transforming the trauma of period pain, endometriosis and chronic pelvic distress. She aims to empower women to ask the right questions, get the right treatment, and make lifestyle changes that bring about release from pain.
Location | Date | Cost
Wednesday 15th October 1015 - 5.30pm
This educational packed day takes place at the breathtaking location of The Roof Terrace - Rockwater, Nestled right by the water, in Hove, East Sussex
I have specifically chosen this venue to curate an event away from a hotel conference room or a laptop screen, allowing us all to immerse ourselves in nature with the opportunity for you to interact with the panelists, presenters and sponsors while sparking cognitive pathways with inspiring and engaging knowledge to be able to then implement with your clients once back in clinic.
Cost
£175 - early bird 1st May
£185
Directions
CAR: Rockwater Hove, Western Esplanade, Brighton and Hove, Hove BN3 4FA | There is no dedicated on-site parking. But there’s paid for on-street parking on Kingsway, the Main Street which Rockwater is just set back from.
TRAIN: Direct London services can be had to Hove or Brighton
TAXIS: Can easily be picked up form Hove or Brighton stations
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What’s included
Fully referenced slide deck
Delicious plant based lunch and refreshments throughout the day
6 hours CPD (in application)
Tanya Borowski goodie bag with treats & delights, including signed copy Peta’s book - Healing Pelvic Pain