This Is
Endorsed by Professor Jerilynn C. Prior
“Reading This Is Perimenopause is comforting. A supportive guide through estrogen’s stormy weather.”
mediakit · Dr Kirstey Holland O.M.D
Endorsed by Dr Lara Briden, ND
“A warm, practical, and validating guide to perimenopause from a clinician who really gets it.”
She connects the dots.
A university-trained Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine with a double degree in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, Kirstey is also trained in environmental and nutritional medicine, functional medicine, naturopathy, person-centred counselling, and trauma-informed health and wellness coaching.
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Endorsed by leading voices in women's health
Internationally recognised voices spanning perimenopause, hormone science, gut-brain medicine, women's health and women's leadership have put their names behind Dr Kirstey Holland's book.
“Written with warmth and conviction, this book will make many women feel seen for the very first time.”
Signature Conversations
Dr Kirstey’s conversations go beyond hot flushes, hormone therapy and symptom management.
Episode concepts with suggested titles, signature topics, conversation starters and clear audience takeaways.
These conversations are starting points, not scripts. They give producers a clear way into Kirstey's work while leaving plenty of room for the curiosity, storytelling and unexpected moments that make a great interview.
Choose your depth
Every conversation can be tailored to your audience and format, from a focused 20-minute interview to a 60–90 minute deep dive. Topics can stand alone or be combined to create a conversation specifically for your listeners.
Expanded interview question bank
For hosts and producers who would like to take the conversation beyond the Signature Conversations. These questions can be mixed and matched to suit the audience, format and direction of the interview. They are prompts, not a prescribed interview structure.
For podcast hosts & media
Selected Media & Podcast Appearances
— Hotflash inc
Dr Kirstey is a regular podcast guest and speaker on women’s health, perimenopause, body literacy, metabolic health and what it means for women to become informed, self-referenced participants in their own healthcare.
The Best of Health
30 September 2025
Why feeling unwell has become normalised for women, hormone education, the evolutionary mismatch, GLP-1s and why sustainable health requires more than a quick fix.
LISTEN ▸Hotflash Inc
20 May 2023
A deep conversation with Ann Marie McQueen about perimenopause, hormones, gut health and what women need to understand about their changing bodies in midlife.
LISTEN ▸The Confidence Chronicles
24 April 2023
Dr Kirstey joins Erika Cramer to unpack perimenopause, overlooked symptoms and how greater body literacy can change the way women approach midlife health.
LISTEN ▸Eating Your Cake Too
9 April 2025
What happens when perimenopause meets the most demanding career years: energy, brain fog, focus, nutrition, movement, stress and workplace conversations.
LISTEN ▸Authentic with Kat John
2 September 2024
An open, personal conversation with Kat John about perimenopause, health and navigating this transition with informed clinical support.
LISTEN ▸Inspired Coach
25 September 2023
Dr Kirstey’s journey as a practitioner, coach and business owner, and the evolution of her work helping women take a more active role in their health.
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Hear Dr Kirstey in Conversation
Click any conversation below to hear Dr Kirstey speak in her own words.
The hormone paradox nobody talks about
Why we suppress younger women's hormones, then prescribe hormones back later in life.
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From The Best of Health: "Dr Kirstey Holland: how society has normalised for women to feel awful" (September 2025)
The patient I couldn't help was me
The personal health story that changed how I practise medicine.
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From The Best of Health: "Dr Kirstey Holland: how society has normalised for women to feel awful" (September 2025)
The goddess hormone, midlife rage & running on empty
Why progesterone matters, where that internal rage can come from, and what happens when an already-taxed system hits perimenopause.
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From Eating Your Cake Too: "Understanding Perimenopause and the Impact on Mid Career Women" (April 2025)
If there's no test for perimenopause, what are we actually looking for?
Why there's no single test, which symptoms women actually experience, and how gut, histamine and other seemingly unrelated changes can be part of the picture.
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From Eating Your Cake Too: "Understanding Perimenopause and the Impact on Mid Career Women" (April 2025)
My Mission. My Vision. What I Believe.
My mission is to make sure women know that there is more than one path to healing.
There is no single treatment, prescription or pathway that is right for every woman. Good care should respond to the woman in front of us: her physiology, her history, her symptoms, her circumstances, her preferences and her life.
I envision a world in which women no longer accept suffering as the inevitable price of being female.
Patient Experience • Google Reviews
4.9 / 5
Average Google rating
49 Google reviews
"Her ability to make you feel seen, heard and felt is, in my experience, rare in women's health."
Google rating and review count current at October 2026.
Professional Recognition & Media
Hotflash Inc.
Selected by founder Ann-Marie McQueen to join Hotflash Inc.'s international panel of women's health experts.
Beautiful You Coaching Academy
2014-2024
Beautiful You Coaching Academy
2023-2024
Figs & Feta Magazine
Featured for her work in women's empowerment and transformation.
The Evidence Behind This Is Perimenopause
A concise evidence snapshot spanning reproductive endocrinology, neuroscience, hormone therapy, gut-brain medicine, metabolic health, stress physiology and the biopsychosocial determinants of health.
The Hierarchy of Healing
Gut health • immune function • digestion • N-of-1 food discovery
Ovulation • progesterone • hormonal patterns
Metabolic health • glucose • insulin • energy • metabolic flexibility
Not Phase Four, but the deeper psycho-emotional work woven through and emerging from healing.
ACEs • accumulated stress • nervous system • relationships • lived experience • what the body no longer needs to carry
Body literate. Self-referenced. Sovereign.
A blood test is a snapshot. Her story is the movie. · Food first. More tools, not fewer. · Vitality is a birthright.
Media, podcast & speaking enquiries
For interviews, review copies, speaking requests or additional media assets, please contact Jan at The Holland Clinic.
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