Classical homeopathy doesn’t treat « perimenopause » as a diagnosis with a standard remedy attached to it. It treats the woman going through it: her sleep, her mood, the days she can’t quite explain to anyone why she snapped over nothing. Get that picture right, and the remedy tends to follow. It isn’t a replacement for your GP or your HRT, but plenty of women use it alongside both.
I’m Carole Sanders, RSHom, and I’ve been practising classical homeopathy for more than 30 years. Barely a week goes by without someone sitting down for their first consultation and saying, half-apologetically, « It’s probably just my hormones. »
How an Accountant Became a Homeopath
I didn’t start out in this field at all. I trained as an accountant and spent years in a job that had nothing to do with health or healing. Then, in the late 1980s, I became seriously unwell, and nothing in conventional medicine seemed to get near the root of it.
Homeopathy did. It affected me enough that I retrained completely, studying at the London College of Classical Homoeopathy and qualifying in 1993. I’ve practised full-time ever since, working with hundreds of patients and picking up experience along the way in counselling, mentoring, and mindfulness meditation too.
I mention this because it’s part of why I take hormonal symptoms seriously rather than filing them under « hormones, nothing to be done. » I know what it’s like when your own body stops making sense to you, and nobody around you can explain why. That’s stayed with me every time a hormonal case comes through the door – the screen, these days, more often than the door.
What Makes Classical Homeopathy Different for Hormonal Symptoms
Two women can walk in with near-identical complaints: the same hot flushes, the same short temper, the same 4am wake-ups, and leave with completely different prescriptions. The remedy is matched to the person, not the label.
Homeopathy is both a science and an art. The science sits in the knowledge of the remedies and how they’re prescribed. The art is in actively listening to you, and to what you’re actually saying, rather than working down a symptom checklist.
That distinction matters more with hormonal complaints than almost anywhere else, because hormonal change rarely arrives as one tidy problem. It tends to drag physical, emotional, and sometimes relational change along behind it, and a proper case-taking process has to be able to follow all of that at once, not just the headline symptom. There’s more on the underlying approach to homeopathy in a nutshell page.
How Hormonal Problems Actually Show Up
Hormonal change isn’t confined to one age, and it doesn’t announce itself politely. Roughly, here’s how it tends to present, and what I’m actually listening for underneath it:
| Life Stage | What’s Often Happening in the Body | What I’m Listening For |
| PMS (premenstrual) | Cyclical shifts in mood, energy, and physical comfort in the days before a period | How these shifts affect work, relationships, and self-image each month |
| Perimenopause | Irregular cycles, hot flushes, disrupted sleep, unpredictable emotions as hormone levels fluctuate | Which symptom feels most disruptive, and what’s shifted in confidence or sense of self |
| Menopause & HRT | Hormone levels settling, possible HRT use, adjusting to a new normal | How a woman feels about the changes in her body and any treatment she’s already using |
| Postnatal hormonal shifts | Rapid hormonal change after childbirth, layered with sleep loss and identity change | The emotional weight of new motherhood, not just the physical symptoms |
No two women fill in that right-hand column the same way. That’s really the whole argument against treating hormonal complaints as a single, standard condition.
How Does a Classical Homeopath Really Listen?
A classical homeopath is trained to listen deeply, and that means hearing far more than the words themselves. It’s paying attention to what sits behind them: how something is expressed as it’s being said, and how the body carries what the words don’t quite manage to.
With hormonal symptoms this matters enormously, because by the time most women reach my consulting room, they’ve usually already been told, in one form or another, that what they’re feeling is « just hormones » and not worth dwelling on. So part of the work, before anything else, is simply taking their account of it seriously again. I notice the pause before someone describes their sleep, or the shift in tone when they mention how their partner has reacted to their moods lately.
Often, being heard properly, before a remedy has even entered the conversation, is the first thing that changes how a woman feels about what she’s going through.
Why Online Consultations Often Work Even Better
You’d think hormonal symptoms, being physical and embodied and sometimes awkward to describe, would call for sitting across from someone in a room. In my experience it’s usually the opposite.
Talking about hot flushes, low libido, or mood swings from your own sofa, without a waiting room or a drive across town, tends to lower the guard faster than a clinic visit ever did. I originally only saw clients in person, but these days the majority of my consultations happen over Zoom, connecting with women across the UK, Canada, and the United States without anyone needing to travel anywhere. Fewer distractions on both sides means I can focus entirely on how something is being said, not just what’s being said.
People still type « homeopath near me » into Google out of habit, expecting proximity to matter the way it would for a dentist or a GP. For this kind of work it genuinely doesn’t. A consultation where I can hear everything clearly through a screen, with you sitting somewhere comfortable and familiar, tends to serve you better than sitting six feet apart in a clinic room ever managed to. There’s more on how the process actually works on the your homeopathic consultation.
What Happens in Your First Consultation
Your first consultation with me runs to around an hour and a half. It’s an intimate conversation with boundaries. I want to know all about you, not just your hormonal symptoms, because everything you tell me carries value in building the full picture.
Some of the questions I ask surprise people. Your reactions to things. Your likes and dislikes. Even your recurring dreams. None of that is small talk; it’s how I match your symptoms to the one remedy that fits you, rather than a generic hormonal complaint.
Patients often say things to me like « you really made me think about me and what I really mean when I say that, » or « I didn’t put two and two together until I realised it all started when my father died. » There’s usually a moment somewhere in that first conversation when a woman recognises what’s really been hurting underneath the hormonal symptoms, and that recognition tends to be where the healing quietly starts.
Can Homeopathy Sit Alongside HRT?
Many of the women I see are already on HRT, or weighing it up, and want to know if homeopathy fits alongside that rather than instead of it. Classical homeopathy is used as a complementary approach here, not a substitute for medical treatment, and any decision about starting, changing, or stopping HRT should stay firmly between you and your GP.
What homeopathy tends to offer is support for the parts of the experience medication doesn’t always reach: the emotional adjustment, the disrupted sleep, the sense of not quite recognising yourself some mornings. If you’re on HRT, mention it openly in your consultation so the full picture is on the table.
How Do You Choose a Homeopath?
This one comes up constantly, for hormonal complaints and well beyond them.
Check they’re properly registered first. RSHom is the qualification to look for, and behind it sits several years of formal training plus a professional code of conduct, not a weekend course. Beyond that, pay attention to how the first conversation actually feels. Are they listening, or working through a checklist? A homeopath who hands out the same remedy to everyone with the same label isn’t really practising classically, whatever the website says. It’s also worth reading what past patients have actually said about working with someone; the patients’ stories page on this site tells you more than anything I could write about myself here.
What Should You Avoid While Taking Homeopathic Remedies?
There’s a fairly standard answer to this in classical practice: strong-smelling substances such as peppermint, camphor, strong coffee, and certain essential oils are traditionally thought to interfere with, or « antidote, » a remedy’s action, so it’s sensible to keep them away from the time you’re taking one.
Beyond that, tell your homeopath about anything else you’re using, including HRT, supplements, or other complementary therapies, so nothing works at cross-purposes. There’s a fuller explanation on the antidoting remedies page, and remedies themselves are covered on the remedies page.
Does Diet or Lifestyle Matter Too?
Diet and lifestyle sit alongside homeopathic treatment rather than replacing it, but they’re far from irrelevant, especially during hormonal transitions when energy and mood are already under strain. I talk this through with most patients as part of the wider picture; there’s more detail on the healthy eating, vitamins and minerals page. For some women, simple mindfulness or meditation practices help settle the nervous system between consultations too, particularly when stress and hormonal symptoms are feeding off each other.
That link between stress and hormonal symptoms isn’t imagined. The two very often sit right on top of each other, which is part of why homeopathy for stress is such a common starting point for women who arrive thinking their issue is purely hormonal.
A Couple of Other Things People Ask
Is homeopathy good for gastritis?
This turns up often in general searches about homeopathy, even outside today’s topic, so it deserves a straight answer: classical homeopathy takes the same individualised approach to digestive complaints like gastritis as it does to hormonal ones, looking at the whole person rather than treating « gastritis » as a fixed label. If this applies to you, it’s best discussed directly in a consultation rather than guessed at generically. More background is on the more about homeopathy page.
Which brand of homeopathy is best?
There isn’t really a « best brand » in classical homeopathy, not in the way there might be for a supplement or a skincare range. What matters is the specific remedy chosen, sourced through a properly regulated homeopathic pharmacy, and prescribed by someone who’s taken the time to understand your case, not the label on the bottle.
Where This Leaves You
Hormonal problems get dismissed a lot, sometimes by the people around us and sometimes by ourselves. Classical homeopathy starts from a different place: your hot flushes, your mood, your sleep, and everything you’re not quite saying about how it’s all affecting you, treated as one connected picture rather than a symptom to manage in isolation. Whether that fits alongside your GP care, your HRT, or on its own, is something worth talking through properly rather than guessing at from a blog post.
About the Author
Carole Sanders (RSHom) is a classical homeopath with over 30 years of experience, based with Blackmore Vale Clinic of Homeopathy (BVCH). She trained at the London College of Classical Homoeopathy, qualifying in 1993, and has since worked with hundreds of patients across the UK, Canada, and the United States, both in person and via online consultation. Read more on her profile or about her, or find her on Facebook, Instagram, or X.
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