Meet Heather Irvine-Rundle
Senior Clinical Psychologist, menopause educator and founder of My Menopause Matters — helping women understand what’s happening to their minds and bodies, and giving them practical tools to navigate it.
Making sense of the psychological side of perimenopause
For many women, perimenopause arrives with symptoms they simply weren’t expecting.
Anxiety. Brain fog. Sleep disruption. Changes in mood. Irritability. Loss of confidence. Feeling overwhelmed, or sometimes simply feeling nothing like yourself.
Heather’s work focuses on helping women understand the psychological impact of perimenopause and giving them practical, evidence-based strategies to manage it.
Combining clinical psychology, neuroscience and lifestyle medicine, Heather bridges an important gap between the medical treatment of menopause and the psychological support women may need alongside it.
Her approach is grounded in science, but delivered like a human being.
No jargon. No judgement. No pretending that telling a woman to “reduce her stress” is particularly useful unless you also show her how.
Heathers Approach
Evidence-based. Practical. Refreshingly human.
Heather believes good psychological support shouldn't require a psychology degree to understand it.
Her work draws together clinical psychology, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), neuroscience and lifestyle medicine to help women better understand the relationship between their hormones, brains, emotions, behaviours and everyday lives.
Her specialist work includes perimenopause and mood, brain fog, anxiety, sleep, identity and mental health, relationships, and menopause in the workplace.
And while the science matters enormously, so does the way it's communicated.
Heather is warm, relatable and decidedly down-to-earth — known for making complicated subjects understandable and difficult conversations feel a lot less difficult.
The psychologist you'd actually love to have a wine with.
