Meet Our Founder And Your Instructor
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
I started charting my cycles back in the early 2000s, before social media and smartphones — a time when most women had never heard of menstrual charting. Fast forward to now — more than 25 years later — the entire landscape of women’s hormone and menstrual health has changed dramatically.
It’s no longer ‘optional’ to offer charting support to your clients. As a women’s health professional, you already know the challenges your clients face when they seek support from conventional providers for common menstrual cycle and hormone issues.
Your clients don’t need any more generic, one-size-fits-all advice
Especially if it’s coming from yet another practitioner with little to no training in fertility awareness-based methods, the menstrual cycle, or hormone health.
They need personalized, science-backed guidance tailored to exactly what’s happening in their cycle. Unfortunately, most fertility awareness training programs don’t adequately prepare you to offer that level of support.
As a certified fertility awareness educator with over 20 years experience in the field, I founded the Fertility Awareness Institute® to help women’s health professionals use the menstrual cycle as a true vital sign with their clients in practice.
When your clients approach you with irregular cycles, hormone imbalances, unclear cervical mucus patterns, erratic basal body temperature charts, common menstrual issues like PCOS, hypothalamic amenorrhea, painful periods, post-pill amenorrhea, and other related issues, the real question is: are you truly prepared to guide them with confidence?
I wasn’t.
After completing my second fertility awareness certification, I thought I was ready. I had spent two years studying, completing hundreds of assignments, and finishing a year-long practicum.
But when I started seeing clients, I realized that my training hadn’t prepared me for what I saw on their charts.
Their cycles didn’t look like mine, and they didn’t look like the curated textbook charts either.
I had learned how to teach charting — but I hadn’t learned how to interpret complex, irregular, or abnormal cycles — let alone how to support clients struggling with fertility challenges, or any of the common cycle issues I saw in practice.
That’s why the Fertility Awareness Institute® exists — and it’s why I created the Fertility Awareness Mastery MentorshipTM Certification.
After more than 20 years of deep clinical work — and over 10,000 hours of deep research and cycle analysis — I designed the program I wish I’d had from the start.
Why Didn’t I Learn This Before?
You’ve spent years studying women’s health. You have the credentials. You have the clinical experience, and you care deeply about your clients.
But you’re here because comprehensive fertility awareness education is not a standard part of women’s health training — not for naturopaths, not for nutritionists, not for midwives, physical therapists, nurses, acupuncturists, doulas, or health coaches. Not even for OBGYNs or Reproductive Endocrinologists.
Fewer than 5% of medical professionals receive formal training in fertility awareness-based methods. When it is mentioned, it’s usually dismissed as “the rhythm method” — and considered outdated and unreliable. This leaves the vast majority of health practitioners unprepared to support the women they serve in this modality.
As your practice grows and you see more clients, you’ve likely realized that:
Understanding hormones conceptually doesn’t translate to knowing how to interpret menstrual charts when you’re face-to-face with real clients.
The Good News?
You Don’t Have to Figure It Out
on Your Own!
FAMM is the culmination of over two decades of clinical experience and well over 10,000 hours of dedicated research, leading to three published books — The Fifth Vital Sign, Real Food for Fertility (co-authored with Lily Nichols, RDN) and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook.
After decades of client work, consulting, teaching, researching, writing, mentoring health professionals, and hundreds of expert interviews, I have shifted the focus of my career to sharing what I’ve learned about utilizing the menstrual cycle as a unique, real-time health indicator so you don’t have to spend years hunting down research and second-guessing yourself.
FAMM provides the perfect combination of deep research and real-world practice. It’s everything I’ve learned, tested, and refined — distilled into a rigorous yet supportive 9-month mentorship.
You’ll get the complete roadmap — a clear framework, evidence-based protocols, and direct mentorship from both myself and my team — so you’re prepared to guide your clients with confidence and have the research to back up your recommendations.
here’s how we get you there…
Most fertility awareness programs teach you how to chart. FAMM teaches you how to interpret complex cycles, handle real-world cases, and guide clients with confidence — even when their charts don’t look like the textbook.
Empowering Women’s Health Practitioners
One Cycle at a Time.
It’s time for a paradigm shift — one that elevates women and places personalized care at the forefront. The menstrual cycle offers unique insights into health that should be available to all women’s health practitioners.
Your clients deserve better.
They deserve to have their cycle-related concerns taken seriously
— and it starts with you!
Are you in?
If you’ve read this far, you know this is more than a certification. We’re raising the bar for how women are cared for — and it’s about time!
Let’s usher in a new era of women’s health — together!
Professional Bio
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator, author of The Fifth Vital Sign, co-author of Real Food for Fertility, and host of the long-running Fertility Friday Podcast. With over 20 years of experience in the field, Lisa’s work has been instrumental in shifting how the menstrual cycle is understood — challenging its cultural and clinical dismissal and reframing it as foundational health information rather than something to suppress or overlook. Her books have played a pivotal role in bringing fertility awareness and cycle literacy into mainstream women’s health conversations worldwide, influencing both practitioners and the women they serve.
For decades, health professionals have largely overlooked the female reproductive and hormone cycle as a source of clinical insight — often defaulting to generalized advice without a complete understanding of fertility awareness-based methods or menstrual cycle physiology. The Fertility Awareness InstituteⓇ and its signature Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship™ Certification were founded to close this critical gap in professional training.
Through rigorous, evidence-based education, FAI prepares women’s health professionals to apply insights gleaned from advanced menstrual cycle analysis in practice. Our work reflects a new standard — one that recognizes the menstrual cycle as central to understanding women’s health.
