Mentoring
Mentoring
Do you have a desire to learn more about becoming an excellent provider? Do you want to expand your practice to treat more complex conditions, men, or the transgender community? Or maybe you are interested in what it’s like to run a cash-based business?
Attending specialized courses is helpful—but can only take you so far. One-on-one mentoring with an experienced pelvic floor therapist offers the unique opportunity to focus on specialized topics to round out your skillset. Working with Dr. Meihofer will allow you to broaden your knowledge, have your questions answered, and allow your services to reach more people!
About Dr. Meihofer
Dr. Laura Meihofer holds years of invaluable experience in pelvic floor patient care, research, and education from her time at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and throughout her years of private practice. She has worked with a wide range of patient conditions—pelvic floor dysfunction, pregnancy and postpartum care, pelvic pain, sexual function, surgical prep and recovery, and much more.
From her experience treating patients and her personal life experiences, Dr. Meihofer has gained a deep understanding of the bodily changes and challenges that come with age. With this difficult yet valuable experience, she is able to better support her patients and their caretakers as they navigate this new chapter of life and health.
Dr. Meihofer is a recognized thought leader in pelvic health, advocating for early and accessible pelvic care while pioneering inclusive services for the gender-diverse community. She authored the first medical publication outlining pelvic floor physical therapy for transgender women and has contributed to multiple medical journals. Additionally, she has shared her expertise with broader audiences, serving as a content expert for outlets like Buzzfeed and TED.
She has also worked with her own private practice for years, expanding her ability to identify and meet patient needs—as well as gain entrepreneurship experience in the health industry. Dr. Meihofer has expanded her business by creating a cash-based private practice and crafting multiple revenue streams. This has allowed her to increase her reach to provide encouragement, knowledge, and education both in online communities and in her office!
All of this experience allows Dr. Meihofer to share her knowledge with others. She is able to provide you with expert opinion, guidance, training, knowledge, and coaching. Learn more about the mentoring process below or get started by scheduling a session!
How Mentoring Works
Dr. Meihofer is passionate about sharing her experience and knowledge with the community and fellow professionals. Through her professional mentoring program, she creates a tailored process to empower you to achieve your personal or professional goals. This process can involve a variety of topics, such as:
- Pelvic conditions and treatment
- Helping you transition to taking pelvic health clients
- Building integrative treatment plans
- Supporting you through complex cases
- Increasing your knowledge on specific conditions
- Teaching you how to be a more inclusive provider
- Improving hands-on skills manual skills, such as abdominal, visceral, internal, external techniques
- Improvement in exercise programming for patients
- How to incorporate biofeedback
- Improving patient education through an expansion of resources
- Crafting or improving therapeutic activities and behavioral modification treatments
- Treatment planning for complex patients
- Training in manual techniques
- Business Topics
- Starting and growing your own practice
- Building a practice within an existing institution that wants to include pelvic floor physical therapy
- How to price yourself / come up with package options
- Optimizing your Google My Business profile and website design
- How to build an online community
- How to develop a pelvic floor program at your clinic
- How to build a business with your partner
- Better handling aging patients/loved ones
- How to advocate for both your patients and loved ones
- Resources to help improve home set-up or facility environment for aging patients / loved ones when dealing with a multidisciplinary team
- How to navigate the medical and legal system with aging parents
- Resources to reference when trying to decipher between length of life versus quality of life
Virtual vs. physical mentorships
Depending on your unique needs, availability, and location, you can opt for either in-person mentoring sessions or virtual mentoring. These will differ slightly, as outlined below:
With an in-person mentorship, manual techniques are more hands-on, as they can be practiced while they are taught. If you are able to coordinate a model via a friend, family member, or patient, they can come in and these techniques can be practiced alongside Dr. Meihofer’s guidance. This will help you learn how to perform a comprehensive evaluation, as well as expand your techniques and fine tune your skills when performing internal, external, abdominal, back, or hip techniques.
With virtual mentorship sessions, techniques are verbally explained or taught, as Dr. Meihofer will not be physically present to lead you through it. However, in many cases she is able to provide resources or videos for further demonstration.
Outside of practicing manual techniques, there are many other topics that don’t necessarily have to be in-person, such as treatment plan programming, creating home exercises programs, and business-related topics!
Crafting your unique program
Each professional’s goals will vary, making each and every person’s mentorship experience unique. The first step of the mentoring program is to identify a few different factors:
- Your area of concern: What topics are you looking to improve in, or what aspects of physical therapy / business do you struggle with?
- After establishing what it is you wish to learn or improve on, you’ll also want to figure out how much help are you looking for. Do you need simple guidance such as having your questions answered, being pushed in the right direction, and given useful resources—or a more thorough, hands-on approach working from the ground up?
- Where are you or your company located?
- How much do you want to invest in this mentorship? (both financially and from a time perspective)
These four points will help craft your mentorship program. It will help decide how in-depth and how long your sessions will need to be, as well as whether you are better suited to in-person or virtual meetings. These questions can help Dr. Meihofer determine the number of visits that may be necessary to achieve your goals.
Dr. Meihofer’s mentorship services are priced the same as her regular services in 60-minute sessions. There are package options available for mentoring as well, which may be a more cost-effective option for you depending on your needs. Feel free to explore the cost page for more information!
Other Resources
You can learn more about pelvic floor therapy and Dr. Laura Meihofer before making an appointment! Feel free to check out the following resources:
FAQs About Mentoring
How do I schedule this program?
You can get started with this mentorship by scheduling a free discovery call, where you can speak with Dr. Meihofer and have your questions about the program answered.
How much does this mentorship cost?
Dr. Meihofer’s mentorship services are priced the same as her physical therapy sessions. You can view all cost information on the costs page!
Who is an eligible candidate?
Any professional who is looking to improve their knowledge in pelvic floor services, business, or other topics discussed above! This includes professionals of all ages and expertise. It’s never too late (or too early) to learn new skills or improve your current knowledge!
Should I expect learning materials?
Dr. Meihofer loves providing helpful resources, so if applicable you can expect to receive a follow-up email with informational PDFs as well as video, product, or blog links that can provide additional help.
Is mentoring one-on-one only, or is group teaching available?
Mentoring can be done in both one-on-one or group settings. Clinics who have multiple physical therapists with a desire to learn are welcome to reach out to make arrangements!
What if mentoring doesn’t feel like the right fit / are there cancellation fees?
Cancellations are accepted if they are at least 24 hours before the scheduled session. However, mentorship packages are non-refundable.
I still have more questions!
You can reach out for more mentorship-related questions in the contact form!