Watch: Perimenopause & Mental Health – Giselle Monbiot

12 May 2025

In this powerful and heartfelt conversation, therapist and breathwork facilitator Giselle Monbiot joins the podcast to explore the emotional, physical, and spiritual journey of perimenopause. Sharing her own story — including a late ADHD diagnosis — Giselle sheds light on why this stage of life often feels like a breakdown, and how it can instead be a profound breakthrough. From nervous system regulation to relationship shifts, and the healing power of breathwork, this episode is packed with insight, empathy, and practical tools to help women navigate midlife with greater awareness, strength, and self-compassion.

Perimenopause & Mental Health

"Giselle is a wonderful facilitator with great energy and enthusiasm. Her knowledge and delivery of workshops in the area of stress management in the workplace has been invaluable."
Change Manager, King's College London
"Having work with Giselle on several occasions I can't recommend her approach and style enough! Every business would benefit greatly from working with her."
Holly Sorce, Change Management Consultant
"Giselle introduced us to concepts that are very useful on a daily basis and help us to deal with the challenges that life might throw at us. Giselle is also a caring, positive and inspiring practitioner and through her approach was able to guide me to create positive changes in my life. I am so grateful and I would highly recommend her sessions."
Veronique, Accountant
"I found the session very useful indeed. I believe that a lot of staff are in an almost permanent state of stress and we don't always recognise it nor do we treat it seriously enough."
Manager, Kingston upon Thames Council
"Giselle helped me to get to the root of my anxieties and to deal with the causes. Her support had an immediate impact - I came out of our very first session feeling much more positive..."
Senior Management, Public Sector
"Working with Giselle over the last few weeks has been life changing and incredibly transformational. It really has been a wonderful experience working with Giselle and I would highly recommend her."
Matt, Software Engineer
"Over the past few years, Giselle has supported our school in our mental well-being project. The parent workshop on helping a worried child and the staff INSET on mental well-being were full of great advice and techniques for parents and school staff. The children really enjoyed learning tips and strategies for mindfulness and relaxation, which they use at home and school. Giselle has a wealth of knowledge and a lovely way with both children and adults."
Deputy Head Teacher, St Paul's Primary School, Kingston Hill
"Giselle helped me to get to the root of my anxieties and to deal with the causes. Her support had an immediate impact - I came out of our very first session feeling much more positive - and that feeling very quickly helped me to perform much better in situations I would previously have found highly stressful."
Senior Management, Public Sector
"I found the mindfulness session which Giselle ran really helpful and insightful. It was interesting to hear the physiological reasons behind stress and gain greater understanding of the cumulative effect stress can have on an individual."
Management, Kingston upon Thames Council
"Giselle helped me face the stress blocks that were preventing me eating; thinking and talking out my stress and ultimately prevented me from being well. It's been an incredible and empowering journey. It's helped me nurture myself and be strong for my children. Time is a healer and the time I spent with Giselle was the best investment of my time."
Paramedic
"I have had the opportunity to attend Giselle's mindfulness and wellbeing sessions, some in group, some on a 121 basis. The classes and the documentation were very interesting, uplifting and so enjoyable. Giselle made us feel welcome and was able to adapt to all our needs."
Accountant
"Mindfulness session provided me with some useful tips on how to get a little bit of time for myself away from the pressure's that we face at work."
Manager, Kingston upon Thames Council
"Change is hard and people find it stressful, having someone to help alleviate that stress and give staff strategies to support themselves is invaluable and makes a tremendous difference not just in the moment but on an ongoing basis."
Consultancy
"The way you combine teaching and counselling, using your own intuition and tailoring the content of what you want to teach to the very real needs of each individual person, is really quite unique."
Marketing and Designer, Consultancy