Michelle A Hardwick

Michelle A. Hardwick is the author of Menopause Wingman: The Emotional Handbook for Partners, published by Inner Peace Press with a foreword by Loretta Dignam, founder and CEO of The Menopause Hub and endorsed by Dr Matthew Cott, Chartered Counselling Psychologist.

Drawing on her own 10 years' lived experience of menopause and 25+ years in private practice supporting people through major life transitions, Michelle brings a rare combination of personal understanding and professional insight. In practice since 1998, she established her first clinic in Dunedin, New Zealand, combining hypnotherapy, NLP, Timeline Therapy and EFT and became one of New Zealand's leading EFT trainers before returning to North Wales in 2007 and later settling in Co. Cork, Ireland where she has lived for the past 16+ years.

Menopause Wingman grew directly out of her own menopause journey and its impact on her marriage, alongside a chance conversation with a man named Richard, whose relationship hadn't survived his wife's menopause. The book exists to help the men beside the women they love understand, show up and stay connected, as well as help women make sense of what is happening to them.

Michelle sees clients online worldwide and in person in Co. Cork, and (as of Sept. 2026) facilitates menopause support circles for women and for men, including The Wingman Circle for partners. She delivers menopause awareness and workplace wellbeing programmes to organisations across Ireland and has spoken at PepsiCo's International Women's Day event in Cork.

Her work has been featured in the Irish Examiner, EchoLive, US Insider, the US Women's Journal, CEO Weekly and Kivo Daily, and across the Newsquest North Wales titles including the Rhyl Journal. She has appeared on the radio on 96FM with PJ Coogan, on IrelandAM TV, the Masters of Wellness podcast and in conversation with Rachel Crowder, The Writing King and Emma White and Claire O'Brien.