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Amy Harris
MS, CNM, CMP
About Amy
Amy is a recovering athlete, lover of oceans and mountains in all seasons, and a practicing yogi for more than 25 years who still can’t do a headstand.
She is a North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Certified Menopause Practitioner (CMP) and an award-winning public health journalist who has taught health workshops and written about women’s health for Harvard School of Public Health, MaineHealth, Planned Parenthood, the CDC, and Mayo Clinic. She loves nothing more than translating scientific jargon into actionable and inspiring content for women.
Susan Kamin
CNM, MSN, MPH, CSC
About Susan
Susan is a certified nurse-midwife (CNM), sexuality counselor (CSC), and menopause specialist. She holds a master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and a Master of Public Health (MPH). She has more than 40 years of experience caring for women across their lifespan. She worked with women and midwives in Israel, Europe, New York City, the greater Boston area, and in Maine.
After practicing as a full-scope midwife, working primarily with pregnant people, Susan now focuses her career on menopause and sexual health at Lifecycle Women’s Health in Brunswick, Maine. She started this practice after personally and professionally experiencing the healthcare injustices people face as they age. She views midwifery as a form of activism and is committed to helping people access holistic midlife and menopausal care.
She is the mother of two grown sons and her lovable 3-year-old rescue pup, Cookie. When she is not advocating for midlife women’s health or seeing patients, she spends her time in nature and loves to share all that Maine has to offer with her friends and family.
Laura Biron
MBA, RDN, CD
About Laura
Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian-Supervisor, Registered Yoga Teacher
Living Better Nutrition and Wellness
Laura’s life’s passion is providing personalized, expert mind-body nutrition services. She is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Dietitian, and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist. She also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) specializing in health care administration from Boston University.
Laura weaves yoga therapeutics into her science-based nutrition therapy to enhance whole body health. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist and Teacher of Kripalu yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yoga4Cancer, and Yoga for Bone Health, and is a participant in an ongoing research study of yoga for osteoporosis.
Laura and her husband raised their two children in Stowe after moving from Boston 25 years ago. Today, Laura and her husband own and operate Butler House, a small Stowe village inn. Their daughter, Zoe, is the chef-owner of Butler’s Pantry, a popular restaurant in Stowe Village. Cooking, gardening, hiking, biking, canoeing, snowboarding, cross country skiing are all activities Laura enjoys, especially with her Portuguese Water Dog, Nellie, or her grandchildren.
Emily Demetriou
MDD, CCC
About Emily
Emily Demetriou, is a board-certified endocrinologist at MaineHealth Endocrinology and Diabetes in Scarborough, Maine. She has practiced clinical endocrinology for the past 16 years, with a special interest in osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. She teaches Tufts medical students about calcium metabolism and bone physiology and supervises Internal Medicine residents rotating in endocrinology. Dr. Demetriou attended Dartmouth Geisel Medical School. She trained in internal medicine at Maine Medical Center (including a chief year) and in endocrinology at Boston Medical Center. She is also a certified clinical densitometrist. She lives in Falmouth, Maine, with her family and loves outdoor activities like biking, skiing, and rowing.
Kat DeAngelus
Sound Healer, Massage and Rolfing
About Kat
Kat DeAngelus is the founder of KATS Dynamic Bodywork, an integrative healing practice devoted to restoring connection within the body and supporting embodied transformation. She weaves together Rolfing® Structural Integration, fascial movement, somatic awareness, transformational coaching, sound healing, and sacred chanting to create spaces of change from the inside out. Her work helps release chronic tension and long-held holding patterns in the body. Her meditation and vibrational sound experiences support deep relaxation and inner listening, helping women shift from overwhelm to clarity, courage, and meaningful connection.
With grounded presence and intention, Kat supports women in stepping into their next season with authenticity and resilience — embodying greater love, freedom, and alignment with what they truly desire.
Kathleen Doehla
PT, DPT, OCS
About Kathleen
Points North Sports and Regenerative Physical Therapy
Kathleen has been a licensed physical therapist for 26 years. She founded her Stowe, VT-based private practice in 2012. Kathleen also founded the Warrior Women Weightlifting program in April 2024, the mission of which is to enable women to improve strength, bone density, muscle mass, and confidence via lifting heavy weights. Kathleen is board-certified in orthopaedics and is a registered USA Weightlifting coach. She is a wife, mom of three teen and young adult children, and a runner, weightlifter, mountain biker, and skier. She loves spending time with her family, reading, learning, and enjoying the outdoors.
Amy Candon
PT
About Amy
Physical therapist Amy Candon graduated from the University of Vermont. In her more than 20 years of practice, she has worked in private and hospital-affiliated clinics in Vermont, Maine, and Boston, serving orthopedic and sports-related populations.
Her interest in women’s health and pelvic physical therapy grew out of her own two pregnancies and postpartum world, and she began studying and treating pregnant and postpartum mothers while in Boston. Amy and her husband have sinced moved back home to Vermont to raise their daughters. Amy began working at Pelvic Health in 2015. Pelvic physical therapy has become Amy’s passion, and her orthopedic background with her pelvic floor specialty gives her the tools to look within and beyond the pelvis to address pelvic floor dysfunction and the many diagnoses associated with this condition. In her free time, Amy enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, skiing, yoga, gardening, and running.
Steph Stoerrle
Yoga Instructor
About Steph
Steph studied psychology at the University of Vermont before devoting her career to movement and healing, finding yoga to be one of the most effective modalities for supporting mental health and well-being. For more than a decade, she has guided yoga in studios across the country — from the Florida Keys to California’s redwoods — as well as in virtual spaces worldwide. She is known for upbeat, strength-based classes and grounded, intuitive cueing that helps students feel capable and at home in their bodies.
Hillary Lindsay
Yoga and Pilates Instructor
About Hillary
Hillary is a certified Yoga and Mat Pilates Instructor and Reiki Master with additional training in Yoga Therapy for Mental Health and Trauma. She’s been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching for over 7 years. Hillary can adapt to different energies and modalities, whether the class is Restorative or Yin with Reiki, a HIIT Pilates class, or anything in between. As a dancer for her whole life, she specializes in a flowing Vinyasa, with movement and breath connected as dance partners.