Practitioners · Vetting virtual care
Vetting a virtual menopause clinic, before you pay.
DTC menopause clinics are everywhere now. Some are excellent. Some are prescription mills with a wellness aesthetic. Here's how to tell the difference, in eleven questions you can answer from their website before you hand over a card.
Why this page exists.
Telehealth has cracked open menopause care for women who'd otherwise wait nine months for a specialist or live nowhere near one. That's a genuinely good thing. The catch: a wave of venture-backed clinics has noticed, and not all of them are practising the same medicine. Some are careful, evidence-based shops staffed by MSCP-credentialed doctors or specialists. Some are form-fill-and-prescribe operations dressed up in soft fonts.
We don't name names, the landscape moves too fast and a clinic that's great this year may be cutting corners next year after a funding round. What we can do is hand you the checklist a careful older sister would walk through with you. If you're still unsure how to read a doctor or specialist's letters after the name, start with the credential decoder on the practitioners page.
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One honest sentence about all of this.
A virtual clinic that gets nine of these eleven right is probably better than the in-person GP who tells you to "push through it" or hands you an selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) without asking about hot flashes. The point isn't perfection; it's pattern-spotting. If something feels like a sales funnel, it usually is.
If you've found a clinic worth recommending, or one worth warning others about, tell us through the contact form. We won't publish individual reviews, but the patterns shape what goes here.
See also: the Menopause Foundation of Canada published its own assessment tool for virtual and private menopause care in 2026. Different format, same instinct, worth a read alongside this checklist.
In Canada?
Check whether your province covers MHT before you go private.
BC and Manitoba cover it publicly; everywhere else is private, employer plan, or out-of-pocket. The province-by-province coverage map tells you what to ask for first.