Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Structured, evidence-based support for anxiety, low mood, stress and the thought patterns that make symptoms harder to live with.
Effica Membership
A care team that stays with you.
Everything in Health Span + Menopause Care, continued across a full year.
Your team helps you act on your plan, work through challenges and bring in extra expertise when you need it.
Membership is the Thrive stage of the LIGHT™ Method: one connected care experience, with a team that already knows your story.
$169/month
Check coverage
Menopause care is covered by provincial health plans for eligible patients. Non-insured services, including the Personalized Healthspan Consult, Membership and Expert Consults, are not covered by provincial health plans and are billed individually. Many group insurance and Health Spending Account plans cover these types of services. Patients should check with their benefits provider to confirm their specific coverage. Purchasing a non-insured service is not required to access publicly insured menopause care; however, a medical referral is required.
What's included
What's included.
Everything in Health Span + Menopause Care, plus:
- 3 additional 60-minute Personalized Healthspan Consults
- 4 expert consultations of your choice
- Direct messaging with your care team
- Ongoing behaviour + lifestyle support
- Proactive monitoring of symptoms and progress
- Ongoing review and adaptation of your plan
- Coordination across your care teams
- Physician involvement when medically required
Expert consultations
Four consultations, chosen by you.
Membership includes four one-on-one consultations with non-insured regulated health providers. You choose the areas that matter most to you, and your Collaborative Care Practitioner helps you decide where the added expertise will make the biggest difference.
Sleep
Targeted help for insomnia, night waking and disrupted sleep, including CBT-I informed strategies alongside your menopause care.
Nutrition
Individualized dietary guidance for bone, heart and metabolic health, body composition changes, and eating patterns that fit your life.
Fitness
Strength, cardiovascular and mobility programming built around your current capacity, joint symptoms, fatigue and long-term health goals.
Coaching
Practical, goal-focused support to translate your plan into consistent action and work through what gets in the way.
Behavioural Medicine & Lifestyle
Help changing the daily habits that influence symptoms and future risk, with realistic steps that hold up over time.
Smoking Cessation
Guided support to stop smoking, one of the highest-impact changes for cardiovascular, bone and menopause symptom outcomes.
Sexual Health
Confidential support for changes in desire, arousal, comfort during intimacy and genitourinary symptoms.
Pelvic Health
Pelvic floor physiotherapy-informed care for urinary symptoms, pelvic pain, prolapse concerns and discomfort with intercourse.
Expert consultations are delivered by non-insured regulated health providers and are included as part of your Membership. Your care team coordinates referrals internally, and anything requiring medical assessment, prescribing or investigation is handled by your Effica physician.
What to expect
Your care, step by step.
Every Effica pathway follows the LIGHT™ Method. Here is how each stage looks for this pathway, from your first intake to what happens after your plan is in place.
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Listen
It begins the same way: with your story.
Your Membership starts with the same comprehensive intake as every Effica pathway, so your care team begins with more of your story already understood.
What happens
- A comprehensive health intake covering your symptoms and how they have changed, your medical and family history, medications, screening and reproductive health.
- A deeper look at sleep, mood, cognition, lifestyle, behaviours, sexual and pelvic health, well-being, risks and priorities.
- Space to tell us what matters in your own words, at your own pace.
How long it takes
- Complete it over one or more sittings. Nothing is rushed and you can return whenever you need to.
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Illuminate
Your information, brought together.
Effica Clinical Intelligence™ surfaces patterns, connections, risks and priorities across what you have shared, then gives both you and your clinician a clearer starting point.
What happens
- You receive personalized Intake Insights before your first appointment.
- Your clinician receives a detailed analysis of your health information, examined against current evidence and clinical guidelines.
- Throughout your Membership year, your insights are revisited as your health and priorities change.
Behind the scenes
- Effica Clinical Intelligence™ is grounded in current evidence and leading menopause guidance, including the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), Canadian Menopause Society, The Menopause Society, and International Menopause Society.
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Guide
Start with the complete picture.
Your Membership begins with your comprehensive 60-minute Personalized Healthspan Consult and physician-led Menopause Symptom Assessment & Treatment, including your personalized report, priorities and plan.
What happens
- 60 minutes one-on-one with your Collaborative Care Practitioner covering prevention, future health risks, screening, nutrition, movement, sleep, lifestyle, behaviour, emotional well-being, and sexual and pelvic health.
- Your Effica physician completes your menopause assessment and discusses evidence-based treatment options with you, including prescriptions, investigations and medical follow-up when clinically appropriate.
- You receive a detailed Health Span report and follow-up plan, with an optional summary to your primary care provider.
How long it takes
- Your first consult sets the plan for the year ahead. Everything after it is built to help you act on it.
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Heal
Your plan becomes care, then keeps going.
Heal is where your assessment and care plan are put into action: menopause treatment and medical follow-up, alongside the lifestyle, behavioural and preventive priorities identified through Health Span.
What happens
- Your Effica physician manages the medical aspects of your menopause care, including appropriate prescriptions, investigations and medical follow-up.
- Your Collaborative Care Practitioner helps you determine what to work on, where to start and how to make changes realistic and sustainable.
- When specialized support would help, you can use your expert consultations with non-insured regulated health providers in nutrition, pelvic health, sexual health, behavioural coaching, fitness and other areas.
Behind the scenes
- Treatment is individualized and evidence-based. Your physician considers your symptoms, health history, risks and preferences alongside the information identified through your assessment and Effica Clinical Intelligence™.
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Thrive
Care that stays with you across the year.
Your health does not stop changing after one assessment, and your care should not either. Thrive is the part of Effica that only Membership includes.
What happens
- Three additional 60-minute Health Span consultations to review your progress, work through challenges, revisit your priorities and evolve your plan.
- Four expert consultations of your choice with non-insured regulated health providers in the areas that matter most to you.
- Direct messaging with a care team that already understands your history, priorities and plan.
- Care coordination, including help facilitating physician involvement when a medical issue requires assessment or treatment.
- Proactive monitoring, not just appointments: we continue to follow your health, progress and priorities over time.
Behind the scenes
- Your Collaborative Care Practitioner remains at the centre of your Health Span care, helping you implement your plan, supporting behaviour and lifestyle change, coordinating additional expertise and keeping the broader picture of your health in view.
How long it takes
- Your Membership is designed as a 12-month care experience.
- Your plan evolves with you throughout the year, because the goal is not simply to give you recommendations. It is to help you act on them, adapt them and make them part of your life.
A year of care, starting with a conversation.
Book a call and we will help you decide whether Membership is the right fit, or whether a single consult is enough for now.