When What Used to Work Stops Working
For many women, perimenopause and menopause can make long-standing difficulties with attention, memory, organization, and follow-through harder to manage.
Two women may describe the same problem and still need very different solutions. One may have difficulty holding auditory information long enough to use it. Another may lose the sequence. Another may not take in verbal information consistently in the first place.
The discovery process looks at those individual patterns so the next steps can be matched to what is actually happening for you, rather than relying on the same strategy for everyone.
What the Discovery Process Includes
Personalized Intake Questionnaire​
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Captures what you are noticing now, what may have been present for years, and what has become harder to manage.
Individual Processing Profile​
Identifies patterns in how you take in and use auditory and visual information.
Individual Results Summary
Brings the findings together to show which patterns may be contributing to the difficulties you are experiencing now.
Strategy Consultation with Dr. McReynolds
Reviews the findings and identifies practical strategies matched to your individual needs.
Understanding Your Individual Pattern
Midlife changes can make familiar difficulties feel different, stronger, or harder to compensate for. The discovery process looks at how you take in, hold, organize, and use auditory and visual information so we can distinguish the patterns contributing to what you are experiencing now.
A New Understanding After 40 Years
During the process, one woman realized that part of what she was completing felt strikingly familiar. She remembered taking a similar assessment as a child, after which she had been identified as needing specialized classes. For nearly 40 years, that experience had influenced how she understood her own abilities and shaped the story she carried about herself, even though she had created a successful career.
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Her discovery results gave her the opportunity to look at that history differently. The findings identified specific visual processing challenges that were not about eyesight, but about how she was taking in and managing information around her.
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As we discussed what those findings could mean in everyday life, she looked around her office and suddenly saw the clutter and disorganization differently. What had simply been “her office” was also creating a visually distracting environment that was making things harder. That same afternoon, she cleared and reorganized the space and immediately felt the difference.
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She described the experience as life-changing, not simply because she had learned something new, but because she could reconsider how she had viewed herself for decades and begin making changes based on a clearer understanding of what she needed.
Who Can Benefit
This discovery process may be helpful for women who:
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Have noticed greater difficulty with attention, memory, organization, or follow-through during perimenopause or menopause
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Have relied on strategies for years that no longer seem to work as well
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Are unsure whether current difficulties are new or reflect patterns that have been present much longer
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Want a clearer understanding of what is contributing to the changes they are experiencing