What: Virtual learning opportunity with BCPA, presented over Zoom

When: Friday 05/29/2026 at 1pm - 4pm CDT

Number of CE Credits: 3 CE Hours

CE Credits Available to: Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists 

Register here: May workshop registration

A Trauma-Informed, Biopsychosocial Approach to Women's Health Across the Lifespan

Presented by Dr. Nikki Terranova

About This Virtual Workshop:

This 3-hour training provides a trauma-informed approach to understanding women’s health across the lifespan, with a focus on how trauma presents, evolves, and is often missed in clinical care. Rather than appearing as a single, identifiable event, trauma frequently manifests through physical symptoms, mood changes, and patterns that are easily misattributed to stress, hormones, or aging.

Using a lifespan framework, this training will explore key developmental stages, including adolescence, reproductive years, midlife/menopause, and later life, to highlight how trauma can shape women’s experiences in distinct and often overlooked ways. Particular attention will be given to the complex interplay between biological transitions and psychological experiences, including a common clinical question: Is this trauma, hormones, or both? Participants will learn how to thoughtfully assess and differentiate these factors while avoiding oversimplification.

Participants will learn to recognize common clinical pitfalls and apply practical, trauma-informed strategies to improve assessment, communication, and treatment planning across healthcare settings.

This training emphasizes a shift in clinical perspective: moving from asking “What is wrong?” to considering “What might have happened, and what is happening now?” and how that understanding changes care.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

1.     Describe the core principles of trauma-informed care and explain how they intersect with a biopsychosocial approach to women’s health.

2.     Identify how trauma may present across key developmental stages in women, particularly during major biological and reproductive transitions.

3.     Differentiate between trauma-related, hormonal, and overlapping biopsychosocial contributors to women’s physical and mental health symptoms.

4.     Recognize common clinical misattributions that arise when biological or psychological factors are considered in isolation.

5.     Apply integrated, trauma-informed and biopsychosocial strategies to improve assessment, communication, and treatment planning across healthcare settings.

About Speaker

Dr. Niki Terranova is a Women’s Health Psychologist at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, where she specializes in trauma-informed, biopsychosocial care across the female lifespan. Her work focuses on the complex intersections of mental health, reproductive transitions, and medical conditions, including fertility challenges, perimenopause, and early menopause.

Dr. Terranova is a Certified VA National Reproductive Mental Health Provider and uses evidence-based approaches, including Interpersonal Therapy, to support women navigating both visible and often overlooked health concerns. She is passionate about helping providers recognize the nuanced ways distress presents in women and translating trauma-informed principles into practical, everyday care.

Through her clinical work, program development, and training, she is committed to advancing more responsive, equitable, and whole-person care for women. Outside of her clinical work, she enjoys gardening, collecting trivia, and caring for a small (but very important) tree frog named Ricardo.

The views expressed are Dr. Terranova’s and hers alone and do not represent those of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. government.

Cost for this workshop:

• Student Members: $45 ($30 early bird discount)

• Members: $75 ($60 early bird discount)

• Non-Members: $95 ($80 early bird discount)

Register today! The early bird discount ends on May 8, 2026.

s $15 off from each price level. The discount ends on Friday, May 8th, 2026.

Register here: May workshop registration

With questions, please email bexarpsych@gmail.com.