Women's Health
In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Spano conducts continuing education seminars for medical and mental health professionals on women's mental health issues. She combines the latest research with her clinical expertise to explore how hormonal transitions affect women's mental well-being.
Advancing Women's Health Knowledge
Dr. Spano is a featured speaker for PESI, an organization that provides continuing education credits for healthcare professionals. Her most recent webinar, Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan (June 2025), explored key issues affecting women from adolescence to post-menopause.
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While her clinical practice addresses a broad range of mental health concerns, Dr. Spano's work in women's mental health remains a focus through her research, teaching, and continuing education efforts, helping other healthcare professionals better understand and support the unique mental health needs of women. ​Learn More About PESI
Dr. Spano reviews clinical research on the potential effects of botulinum toxin on mood, emotional regulation, and brain pathways involved in stress and emotion.
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Professional Presentations and Delivered Trainings
Spano, K. V. (2025, June 2). Women’s mental health across the lifespan: The latest techniques from CBT, DBT, and mindfulness to treat the impact of hormonal shifts, PMS, PMDD, postpartum, perimenopause & menopause [Recorded presentation]. PESI.
Bindeman, J., Jaffe, J., Spano, K. V., & Johnson, L. (2025, August 22). Reproductive mental health specialist certificate: Heal grief, trauma, and support emotional health from fertility to postpartum [Recorded presentation]. PESI.
Mizock, L., Carr, E., Spano, K. V., Tremayne, L., Featherstone, R., Dougher Frank, M., Osborn, S., & Arms, D. (2024, August 20). Women’s mental health specialist certificate [Recorded presentation]. PESI.
Spano, K. V. (2022, June 13). Treat premenstrual dysphoric disorder, premenstrual syndrome, & emotional dysregulation with DBT & CBT [Recorded presentation]. PESI.
Waller, H., Osborn, S., & Spano, K. V. (2022, August 26). Guiding women through postpartum depression, perinatal loss & grief, PMDD & more [Recorded presentation]. PESI.