We get it…
The Menopause Squad was formed by Kara, Emily, and Cameron when they became frustrated with the lack of trustworthy information and competent providers while navigating menopause.
The Menopause Squad is here to listen and help guide you through your menopause journey with evidence-based solutions to your WTFs.
We’re not here to sell you “magical BS”, we're here to empower you through knowledge and support. We all stay up to date on menopause practices and trends.
Founder of Frog Medicine, Kara Stiles, is a nationally certified nurse practitioner, with 16 years of health care experience. Kara is licensed as an NP in New Mexico, where she has practiced in primary care, sexual and reproductive health and hospice for 10 years, and is a Menopause Society certified practitioner. Kara has loved learning about the rich cultures and traditional teachings from meeting resilient individuals and families across New Mexico.
Kara’s life took a winding path through the military and business worlds before realizing her dream of becoming a nurse practitioner after graduating from Northeastern University, Boston. She focused her clinical practice on communities with limited access to primary care across the U.S., from Boston to Oregon, before choosing to make her forever home in New Mexico.
Her life experiences have extended across many cultures, and lessons learned have culminated in respect for individual life choices. This perspective helps her connect with people on their healthcare journeys, and creates a space where individuals can explore what’s best for their health. Her practice focuses on sexual and reproductive health, and empowering choice and knowledge about your body.
She also has extensive experience in navigating the complexities of aging for individuals and their loved ones. After her decade of experiences as a hospice NP, she continues to build the knowledge and community needed to restore the dignity and compassion to the process with dying and death in our communities.
Following in her mother’s footsteps in her strong belief in the power of nature to heal, Kara has embraced the teachings of nature and traditional medicines. She is honored to have a community of traditional medicine practitioners guiding her to continually respect and celebrate the traditional medicines found in New Mexico and across the globe.
Kara Stiles, Nurse Practioner
Dr. Emily Blair, DC, CFSC
Dr. Emily Blair, D.C. focuses on comprehensive movement and manual therapy.
Emily grew up in a small town on the coast of Maine and had the opportunity to spend much of her time outdoors. Childhood summers and winters were spent joyously hiking, biking, snowshoeing, sledding, camping, sailing, kayaking, and rowing.
This love of movement carried through her first career as a legal assistant, still spending as much time outdoors as possible hiking, exploring, and camping.
In addition, she spent many years as a student of kung fu, tai chi, qi gong, and aikido. The martial arts gave her an extra appreciation of the capabilities of the human body and mind. It was this interest in health and movement that inspired her to leave the legal field to attend the University of Western States, where she graduated cum laude with a four year musculoskeletal doctorate degree in chiropractic.
After graduation the learning truly began. Emily took a deep dive into movement and rehabilitation, including the Functional Movement Assessment, TPI Golf Institute, kettlebell training, and then later on, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) which focuses on developmental patterns. Most physical therapy starts too far along the development chain, and there is neurological gold in returning folks to these developmental patterns. This is often the missing link in rehab, and fitness.
Emily also spent years training in NeuroKinetic Therapy, a unique way to find and treat hidden compensation patterns.
While in school Emily suffered from a hiatal hernia that was fixed by visceral manipulation. This led her to a 96 hour course of study with the Barral Institute in Visceral Manipulation (VM). VM has been life changing for many patients, as the organs, while often silent, are usually driving the musculoskeletal bus!
Often scars and adhesions are a key factor in truly rehabbing a peri or post menopausal body. In addition to Visceral Manipulation Emily has invested in a Class IV Laser that has been getting great results in softening not only abdominal adhesions but post-mastectomy cording. Restoring movement to these forgotten areas can often achieve huge improvements in digestion, reduction in pain, and better ability to achieve strength and fitness.
A further dive into the Barral Institute led Emily to take training in Neural Manipulation, a 72 hour course of study that further refined her focus on treating the nervous system first.
Taking a nervous system first approach, and honoring the individual body, allows for gentle yet precise bodywork. The addition of movement and active care rounds out the treatment, so that each patient can become empowered in their body.
Emily feels incredibly fortunate to have a career that enables her to help others stay active and enjoy their lives to the fullest.
Cameron joined the Menopause Squad after witnessing how often people navigating perimenopause and menopause are told their symptoms are “just stress,” “just hormones,” or “just part of getting older.”
They’re not.
Perimenopause and menopause are profound neurological and physiological transitions. Hormones shift. Sleep changes. The nervous system recalibrates. For many people, anxiety intensifies, mood becomes unpredictable, focus disappears, and a steady sense of self can feel out of reach.
Cameron provides affirming care for cisgender women, transgender men, nonbinary and gender-diverse individuals, and anyone navigating hormonal transition related to ovarian function or endocrine change.
Cameron is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specializing in the brain and nervous system changes that accompany hormonal transitions.
Her work supports individuals navigating:
anxiety and mood instability during perimenopause and menopause
brain fog and cognitive changes
sleep disruption
heightened stress reactivity and nervous system dysregulation
identity evolution and emotional processing during midlife transition
She blends evidence-informed psychiatric care with trauma-informed nervous system support. Her approach may include thoughtful medication guidance when appropriate, somatic regulation tools, breathwork, and practical strategies that support nervous system stability.
Cameron understands menopause not only as a medical phase, but as a threshold — a recalibration of identity, capacity, and purpose.
Her role within the Menopause Squad is to ensure people feel supported in the mental, emotional, and nervous system dimensions of this transition — not dismissed, minimized, or rushed through it.
The goal is not numbing.
The goal is steadiness, clarity, and resilience.