Juniper
Women’s Integrative Health
The Juniper Steady State Program
A 12 week, physician-led program for women 38 to 58 in perimenopause.
You have most likely been handed a fix for each complaint on its own, in whatever order it came up. The work here is different: one read of your whole pattern first, then the deliberate order that pattern needs to be addressed in, then a plan you can understand and sustain.
A conversation with Dr. Bennett about your pattern. Free, with no obligation to enrol.
Fatigue that sleep does not fix
Seven hours, and you wake as though you never slept
The 2 to 4 p.m. crash
Predictable enough that you schedule around it
Waking at 3 a.m.
Hot or wired, body tired, mind running
The fog
Re-reading the same email, losing a word mid-sentence
Weight that arrived on its own
Around the middle, with no habit changed
Treated separately, these look like five problems. Read together, in order, they usually read as one.
What the week actually looks like
Read the list below the way you would read it to a clinician rather than the way you would downplay it in the room. If most of it is familiar, that familiarity is clinical information.
None of that is a character problem. It is a pattern, and a pattern can be read.
Why it keeps coming back
Someone looked at your sleep and gave you something for sleep. Someone else looked at your weight and gave you an eating plan. Someone looked at the fatigue and gave you a supplement list. Each of those clinicians was responding well to the complaint in front of them. A fifteen minute, problem-focused appointment is built to do exactly that, and it does that job.
What it is not built to do is hold a question that spans six complaints across three years. So the pieces arrive from different places, in whatever order they happened to come up, and nobody reads them against one another.
In perimenopause, the order of intervention is itself the clinical decision. That is the part fragmented care structurally cannot supply.
Right tactics, wrong position in the order
This is a structural problem with fragmented care. It is not a discipline failure on your part, and it is not the fault of any clinician who treated you before. You executed what you were handed. It arrived out of order, against a pattern nobody had read as one piece.
The Juniper Steady State Framework
Knowing that an order exists, and knowing what it is before you start, is the main thing that separates this from what you have already tried. It is a finite sequence with a defined end, not an open-ended journey.
Each phase has a stated job, and each one ends with something written that you keep.
01
Weeks 1 to 2
A full history, a symptom timeline, a medication and supplement review, sleep and stress patterns, nutrition, movement, and your existing lab results, read against one another rather than one at a time.
Where it is clinically appropriate, additional standard testing may be reviewed or ordered: CBC, metabolic panel, thyroid markers, glucose and A1C, fasting insulin, lipids, iron and ferritin, B12, and vitamin D.
You end this phase holding
One read of your whole pattern, in writing, and the order it will be addressed in.
02
Weeks 3 to 5
Meal rhythm, protein, sleep, stress, and recovery. These are the foundations everything after them depends on, specified as actual daily instructions rather than principles.
This phase also carries an explicit list of what you are deliberately not working on yet. The list of what we are leaving alone is the point of the phase.
You end this phase holding
The foundations in place, and a written account of what is being held back on purpose.
03
Weeks 6 to 9
The plan adjusted against how you specifically responded and what the findings showed. This is the phase that cannot be written in advance, because it depends on what your body actually did in the first five weeks.
You end this phase holding
Your plan, revised against your own response rather than against an average.
04
Weeks 10 to 12
Your maintenance plan, your personal early-warning signals, and a defined follow-up strategy. Written, specific, and yours to keep.
You end this phase holding
A written plan you still know how to use after week 12.
Alongside the phases there are written checkpoints at weeks 3, 6, 9, and 12. Each one states what is being watched at that point and what is not expected yet, and I review your response at each of them. Week 3 is named deliberately, because it is the point at which most previous attempts stopped holding.
What you are left with at week 12 is not a finished body. It is a written plan you can understand and sustain.
Before any of this, there is one conversation.
The consult is where we work out whether this sequence is the right answer for your pattern. It is free, and you are not asked to decide anything on the call.
Book my free consultWho leads the care
I lead every initial clinical evaluation, the treatment planning, and the complex clinical decisions. That part is not delegated, because the sequencing decision depends on one person reading your whole history at once and then staying with it as it changes.
Around that, we run a small team, so that no part of your care is waiting on my calendar and none of the logistics land on you.
Because I personally lead every assessment, the number of new patients we take on at a time is limited. That is a capacity constraint rather than a promotion. If the consult calendar is full when you write to us, the coordinator will tell you when the next opening is.
Before you book
You have been sold to before, and it did not hold. So here are the things that would otherwise come up at the end of a call, stated plainly at the beginning of one.
Fit
A filter that excludes nobody is not a filter. These exclusions are real, and if one of them describes you, the consult will say so rather than enrol you anyway.
The consult
It is a conversation with me about your pattern, and about whether this program is the right answer for you. It is free, and there is no obligation to enrol.
It is not a sales call with a clinical introduction attached. It is an assessment, and assessments are allowed to conclude no.
01
When you first noticed something had changed, and the order the symptoms showed up in. If you keep a note on your phone listing symptoms and dates, bring it. That note is clinical data.
02
And for each one, how long it helped before it stopped. That history tells me considerably more than a symptom list does, and a long list of previous attempts is useful rather than disqualifying.
03
If sequenced care is not the right answer for what you describe, I will say so on the call and point you somewhere more useful. That is part of the job of the conversation, not a failure of it.
04
I describe what the twelve weeks look like and what it costs, and you go away and think about it. I will not ask you to decide on the call.
What you can verify
This is the part of a page that usually carries patient stories. There are none here. I will not publish a patient’s experience without her explicit permission, and I do not have that yet.
So this section is the rest of it: who does the clinical work, and exactly what you are handed in writing.
I lead every initial clinical evaluation, all treatment planning, and every complex clinical decision. That is the reason we accept a limited number of new patients at a time, and it is a capacity constraint rather than a promotion.
Around that
Weeks 1 and 2, the Map
A full history, a symptom timeline, and a medication and supplement review, read alongside sleep and stress patterns, nutrition, movement, and your existing lab results.
What you are handed at the end of it is one read of your whole pattern, in writing, and the order it will be addressed in.
Week 12, the Sustain plan
Your maintenance plan, your personal early-warning signals, and a defined follow-up strategy.
Juniper Women’s Integrative Health is a physician-owned, physician-led practice. Care is virtual throughout the state, with a limited number of in-person appointments.
The first step is not the twelve week decision. It is one conversation, at no cost, about whether your symptoms read as one pattern and what order that pattern would need to be addressed in. If the answer is that this is not the right approach for you, you will hear that plainly, and you will leave with somewhere better to look.
Free. No obligation to enrol.
I am not going to give you a number, because the number is the thing you have been promised before. Here is what I can tell you honestly.
Most women who come to me have had the experience of feeling better for about three weeks and then sliding back to where they started. That pattern is not a discipline problem. It happens when a change is made without the rest of the picture being accounted for, so nothing holds.
The first two weeks here are not about feeling different. They are about the Map: your full history, your symptom timeline, and a review of everything you are currently taking, read together as one pattern. What changes first is that you understand what your body is telling you. Then we sequence from there, in the order your pattern actually calls for, rather than piling on more tactics and hoping one of them sticks.
Timelines are individual, and I will tell you what I am watching for and when, so you are never guessing whether something is working.
Sometimes, and not always the ones you would expect. If you already have recent labs, bring them. A great deal of what I do in the Map phase is interpretation: looking at results that came back as normal or borderline and reading them alongside your symptom timeline, rather than in isolation.
Normal-range results do not mean nothing is happening. They mean nothing was flagged, which is a different statement. Whether any additional testing is worth doing is a clinical decision I make individually, after I have seen your full picture, and I will explain the reasoning for anything I recommend. I do not order panels reflexively, and I will not run a test I cannot tell you what I intend to do with.
The Juniper Steady State Program is $3,600 for the twelve weeks, and I would rather you know that before the call than discover it at the end of one. Coverage and reimbursement vary by plan, and many patients ask about using HSA or FSA funds. Those are reasonable questions and our care coordinator can walk you through the specifics for your situation, including what documentation we can provide.
Please do not commit to anything before you have that clarity. I would rather you enrol knowing exactly what you are agreeing to than have the cost become the reason a plan gets abandoned in week six.
Many of the women I work with are, and that is not a complication. A full review of your current medications and supplements, hormone therapy included, is part of the Map phase, because I cannot read your pattern without knowing what is already acting on it.
What I will not do is make changes to a therapy someone else is managing without that clinician involved. Any adjustment is an individual, clinician-supervised decision, and coordination with your prescribing clinician is part of how we work rather than an afterthought. The goal is one coordinated plan, not a second opinion running quietly alongside the first.
We talk. You describe what your days actually look like: the afternoon crash, the 3 a.m. wake-ups, the fog, whatever brought you here, and what you have already tried. I ask questions, and I tell you what I am seeing in the pattern, including whether I think this program is the right fit for you. If it is not, I will say so and point you toward what makes more sense.
There is no obligation to enrol, and the call is free. You will leave it with a clearer sense of what is going on than you came in with, whether or not you become a patient.