Presenting research on virtual, pharmacist-led menopausal care.

I'm a board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist. I built this platform because I spent most of my life waiting for someone to explain what my own hormones were doing to me, and no one did.

When I started my cycle, my mother taught me what she knew: it would come every month, and I needed to be ready. What neither of us understood yet was what the hormonal shifts underneath it could actually do. The migraines started young, and got waved off as "just what every girl goes through" right before her period. I didn't get real treatment until my mid-twenties, around the same time years of severe PMS symptoms were finally given a name: PMDD.

The other three weeks were a mix of anxiety, depression, brain fog, and mood swings I couldn't explain, plus painful periods severe enough to leave me on the floor in a cold sweat. The only answer anyone offered was birth control. Now, in my late thirties, I'm on the other side of that same hormonal system: slowly stepping into perimenopause, with its own version of symptoms. A pattern of hot flashes, night sweats, a racing heart, trouble sleeping, racing thoughts, and brain fog, to name a few. These symptoms show up like clockwork a week or two before my cycle.

But I wasn't the only one. As a provider, I was seeing these same symptoms show up in patient after patient, and I was trained to focus on their blood pressure, their blood sugar, the numbers on the chart. Not on how much of what they were feeling traced back to their hormones. So I went and did the deep dive myself, and made it my mission to educate every woman who'll listen: it's not you, it's your hormones.

That's the reset this platform is named for: resetting the thought process around hormonal change, so it stops feeling like something is wrong with you. Understanding what's happening in your body is what makes you able to advocate for yourself, and to give yourself grace through the changes you're not in control of. And it's not just about menopause. It's the natural shifts across the whole menstrual cycle, it's endometriosis, it's PCOS/PMOS, it's PMDD, it's what happens during and after pregnancy. My goal is for no woman to be blindsided by what her hormones are doing to her, whether that's a teenager learning her cycle for the first time, or a woman my age walking into perimenopause without a map. I want to be that bridge, so we're not slapped in the face by the transition. We're prepared to thrive through it.

I think of it as layered education: I teach mothers what's happening in their own bodies, and I teach them how to explain it to their daughters, so the next generation doesn't have to wait until her mid-twenties to get a name for what she's feeling. I speak on hormone health nationally, and I'm available for speaking engagements. Reach out through the contact page if you'd like me to speak to your group or organization.

That's what Reset With Dr. Jess is. I translate. I take your symptoms, your history and your labs, and I hand you back a clear picture and a plan in plain English, including the exact questions to bring to your prescriber, because you deserve to walk into that appointment as an informed participant instead of a passenger.

I'm not here to replace your physician. I'm here to make sure you understand what's happening in your own body well enough to advocate for yourself in every room you walk into.