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The HormoneIQ™ Workshop is an educational program — not clinical care. You'll learn how hormones work, how to read labs, and how to advocate for yourself, but this is not a substitute for working with a practitioner. If you're ready for personalized clinical care — advanced testing, your own protocol, direct access to Dr. Ryan — that's what our 1:1 packages are for.

They're interactive lessons you work through in your browser — not videos to sit and watch. Each module contains ten lessons with illustrated diagrams, knowledge checks that tell you whether the material actually landed, and a fillable worksheet that saves your answers as you type. Lessons unlock as you read, so you move through in order rather than skipping ahead and losing the thread. Every module also has a read-aloud mode: press play and it reads the lesson to you, highlighting each line as it goes, so you can listen while you're driving, walking, or cooking and still know exactly where you are. Everything works on a phone, tablet or laptop, and your progress saves automatically. Nothing to download or install.

No — it's built in as Step One. The assessment is free, takes three minutes, and you can take it before or right after you enroll. It identifies your primary archetype, which becomes your map through the curriculum: all six modules apply to every woman, but each archetype has two "home modules" where her pattern is covered in depth (shown on the archetype cards above), and you'll build your Module 6 action plan around your specific archetype.

A kit is an archetype's starting protocol — what to do first, in a box. The workshop is the education underneath it: why your pattern developed, how to read the labs that track it, how the nine systems interact, and how to build and adjust your own plan over time. Kit owners consistently say the workshop is where the kit "clicked." Don't have a kit yet? You don't need one to enroll — the workshop stands on its own.

They aren't two different curricula — the live tier includes the full six-module course. The difference is what you get on top of it: a focused two-hour virtual session with Dr. Ryan, with live Q&A and real-time interaction. Most women work through the modules first and bring their specific questions to the session, which is where the material tends to land properly. If you'd rather move entirely at your own pace, the self-paced course stands on its own.

Live sessions run virtually on a quarterly rhythm, so you can join from anywhere. When you enroll in the Course + Live Session tier, upcoming dates are emailed to you as they're scheduled, and you'll get first choice of seat — seats are capped deliberately, because the point of a live session is that you can actually ask your question and get it answered. If you'd like to know the next date before enrolling, email drryan@drnatasharyan.com and we'll tell you where things stand.

Very much so — it's one of the reasons the Practitioner Training tier exists. If you work with women over 35, you are already seeing hormone problems whether or not anyone has named them: the client whose weight won't move, whose energy crashed, whose labs came back "normal." Most coaching and training certifications spend very little time on the endocrine system and almost none on the perimenopausal transition. This gives you the framework to recognize what you're looking at, understand which of your standard recommendations help or backfire in each pattern, read the labs your clients bring you, and refer precisely when something is outside your scope. Many practitioners also tell me the personal benefit came first — they're women in the same transition, and understanding their own pattern is what made the clinical material click.

Everything in the self-paced course, plus a four-hour live training on Zoom built specifically for practitioners: the science underneath each archetype, how to reason through a client's pattern, where your scope ends and how to hand off well, and how to talk about this work so the right clients find you. You also receive the Practitioner Workbook — deeper science, clinical reasoning, and case walkthroughs — a client-facing marketing kit with a ready-to-deliver talk and social content, a listing in the practitioner directory, and a direct referral pathway to me for cases beyond your scope. Trainings run in small cohorts so there is real time for your questions.

No, and I'd be cautious of anyone who claims a course can. This is professional education, not certification, and it does not qualify you to diagnose, order labs, prescribe, or treat. What it does is give you the understanding to work confidently and appropriately within your existing scope — and, just as importantly, to recognize the edges of it. In my experience the practitioners who get into difficulty aren't the ones who know too little; they're the ones who never learned where their limits were. Knowing when to refer, and being able to help your client ask for the right things once she gets there, makes you more valuable rather than less. Graduates may describe themselves as trained in the HormoneIQ™ Method.

Yes — through an annual license, available to Practitioner Training graduates. Licensing lets you build your client work around the nine archetypes: your clients take the assessment, you receive their result, and your programming starts from a named pattern rather than a blank page. The license includes ongoing updates to the assessment and refreshed marketing materials, and it's renewed yearly. Licensing is separate from training enrollment; we'll walk through the details on your training call.

None at all. The workshop is designed for women — not clinicians. Dr. Ryan built it specifically to translate the complexity of functional medicine into clear, actionable language that anyone can use. If you've ever felt lost in a doctor's appointment, this workshop is the foundation you were missing.

Workshop graduates receive priority access and a discounted discovery call for Dr. Ryan's 1:1 clinical packages. After completing the workshop you'll have a clear sense of what you need clinically — and you'll be a far more informed patient when you get there. Book your discovery call directly through Calendly.